When Did Baptism Become a Sacrament?
by Mark BauerleinFr. Romanus Cessario joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church. Continue Reading »
The Fatal Message of Synodal Activism
by Martin GrichtingWhat is currently being pursued under the name of “synodality” represents the continuation of the Tridentine hierarchy-centered understanding of the Church. Such immobilism risks making Christianity irrelevant. Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by VariousThe Cleansing of the Heart: The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition by reginald lynch, o.p. catholic university of america, 260 pages, $65 The sacraments are fundamental to any ecclesiology in which they play a part, and their number, their definition, and . . . . Continue Reading »
What Would Have Stopped Martin Luther
by Michael D. BreidenbachBy convening a council, the Church might have averted the Reformation. Continue Reading »
Trashing Luther
by Russell E. SaltzmanTheological hobbyists of a hyper-Catholic sort continue to misconstrue Luther’s “errors.” Oh, I hardly think he was error-free, but (having recently been one) I know Lutherans who pretty much think he was essentially infallible. But I also know Catholics (me having recently become one) who . . . . Continue Reading »
The Tridentine Genius of Vatican II
by Thomas Joseph WhiteFifty years after the opening of the Second Vatican Council, two schools of thought dominate the interpretation of that event. One derives from the theology surrounding the post-conciliar journal Concilium, founded by theologians like Hans Küng and Edward Schillebeeckx. It advances a progressivist . . . . Continue Reading »
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