Pope Francis seeks to speak a common ethical language to a very diverse global audience, but he ends up blessing the direction of mainstream opinion already stated well elsewhere. Continue Reading »
We dare not replace the deposit of faith—Christ the treasure, the eternal Word of the Father, traditioned to the Church—with some kind of process. Continue Reading »
Newman's conversion to Catholicism was nothing short of a personal cataclysm, a white martyrdom. Continue Reading »
One of the most important tasks of Synod-2023 will be the clarification of its own specific character and authority—and just what is meant by “synodality.” Continue Reading »
In 1489 the Roman Catholic Church felt, and was, hemmed into a corner of the world. The view from Rome was of Africa and Asia long lost to heretical churches or to Islam, and Europe divided between Catholicism and Orthodoxy (itself seen as heretical), while Ottoman power advanced relentlessly up the . . . . Continue Reading »
Sinéad O’Connor, the troubled Irish singer-songwriter, died in July at age fifty-six. No cause of death has been announced, but it is fair to note that at times she both predicted and welcomed her own demise. Her son Shane committed suicide in 2022. Not long after, she vowed, “I’ve decided . . . . Continue Reading »
At ninety-four years old, Eva Brann is both the oldest and longest-serving tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, America’s premier Great Books liberal arts institution. She is also the most widely published member of the faculty, notable at a school aimed at cultivating the life of the mind . . . . Continue Reading »
Casey Chalk joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity.
Continue Reading »Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Moral Wisdom of the Catholic Church: A Defense of Her Controversial Moral Teachings. Continue Reading »
The battle for the status of the body is as much a battle for the imagination as it is for doctrine. Continue Reading »
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