“Who am I to judge?” asked Pope Francis in 2013, when questioned by a reporter about an alleged “gay lobby” within the Vatican. The rhetorical question became a flash point—both for those who hoped that it signaled a new approach toward those with homosexual attractions, and for those . . . . Continue Reading »
The shenanigans of the pope will put pressure on Protestants as well as Catholics. Continue Reading »
Fiducia Supplicans doesn't change Church teaching on marriage, but it does seem to change Church teaching on the sinfulness of same-sex activity. Continue Reading »
Fr. John Jenkins presided over the rapid enactment of the sexual revolution during his tenure as president of the University of Notre Dame. Continue Reading »
German Catholicism may not be regarded in certain Roman circles as being “on the brink” so much as “at the cutting edge.” Continue Reading »
A deeper obedience to God’s will makes life richer, fuller, and more fruitful. It’s a simple truth that our age has forgotten. Continue Reading »
This annual column on Christmas gift books that will inspire, entertain, inform, or all of the above includes oldies-but-still-goodies as well as newer releases. Continue Reading »
I very much enjoyed Armin Rosen’s essay about the Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (“Tarkovksy’s Sublime Terror,” October 2023), but I’m afraid he has made an error of fact about Tarkovsky’s film Nostalghia. Rosen says the protagonist, Andrei Gorchakov, “swallows poison and then . . . . Continue Reading »
In an interview given to The Tablet in 1989, two years before he died, Graham Greene described himself as “a Catholic agnostic” and added that there were two things keeping him from losing his faith altogether. The first was the moment in the Fourth Gospel when Peter and John ran to . . . . Continue Reading »
Marie de Vignerot, the Duchess of Aiguillon, outmaneuvered popes and overawed princes; she counseled kings and steered the state; she managed and invested a colossal fortune, with which she raised hospitals, freed slaves, and flung missions to the far corners of the earth; she negotiated treaties, . . . . Continue Reading »
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