Is the Second Vatican Council receding in the church’s rearview mirror? Has the Francis pontificate raised new and difficult questions about the exercise of papal authority? Is the Roman Church poised to become non-Western? Can popes and bishops teach effectively in a time of rampant individualism . . . . Continue Reading »
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., Synod-2023’s relator general, said that the Synod’s purpose was not changing Catholic teaching but “listening.” To which one must ask, “listening to what end”? Continue Reading »
Archbishop Fernández's appointment to Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is a terrifyingly bad joke—in some ways the culmination of the decade-long tragicomedy of this pontificate. Continue Reading »
The Instrumentum Laboris is laborious indeed. Whether all that labor will be an instrument for anything other than more labor remains to be seen. Continue Reading »
There is much in the Church in need of renewal and reform. The Working Document for the Synod on Synodality does not advance that cause. Continue Reading »
Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Nathan Pinkoski to talk about his article, “Spiritual Death of the West” from the May 2023 issue. Continue Reading »
The remote Tuscan-Romagnolan mountains evince a world isolated from modernity, though that solitude likely won't last long. Continue Reading »
By treating priests as guilty from the moment of accusation, the Church is failing to recognize the inviolable dignity of the human person. Continue Reading »
Michael Doran joins the podcast to talk about the tangled history of liberal internationalism and theological modernism. Continue Reading »
Our editors reflect on their recent reads. Continue Reading »
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