The “Synodality” Masquerade
by George WeigelOver the 50-plus years of its existence, no one has figured out how to make the Synod of Bishops really work. Continue Reading »
On Wounded Shepherds
by Francis X. MaierA review of Austen Ivereigh’s latest book, Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church. Continue Reading »
Fearlessness and the American Bishops in Rome
by George WeigelFor all its faults, the Catholic Church in the United States lives the New Evangelization better than any other local Church in the developed world. Continue Reading »
The Dogmatic Principle
by R. R. RenoLast month I made a pilgrimage to St. Mary’s Church, the university church at Oxford, when I was visiting that ancient city of dreaming spires. Ridley, Latimer, and Cranmer were tried and convicted there for Protestant heresy. But I did not have those men in mind. It was from the pulpit of St. . . . . Continue Reading »
Reading the Signs of the Times
by Douglas FarrowThe Catholic Church has been reduced to propping up its own relevance as a “dialogue partner” to the world through whatever opportunity the age affords it. Continue Reading »
A New Cardinal Honors an Entire Nation
by George WeigelSigitas Tamkevicius’s enrollment in the College of Cardinals was a papal tribute to a brave man who exemplifies the best the Society of Jesus offers the Church and the world. Continue Reading »
The Synod’s Dissenters
by Dan HitchensAt the Amazon Synod, Pope Francis has empowered critics of Catholic doctrine to try to impose destructive reforms on the Catholic Church. Continue Reading »
The Amazon Synod Is a Sign of the Times
by Douglas FarrowThe kairos, the culture of encounter, being lauded in the Pan-Amazon Synod is a Bergoglian kairos and culture. Continue Reading »
Letters From the Synod–2019: #3
Edited by Xavier Rynne IIThe “neo-colonialism” of dumbed-down expectations compounded by the imposition of First World preoccupations on Third World societies has been evident at Synod-2019. Continue Reading »
Letters From the Synod–2019: #2
Edited by Xavier Rynne IICatholics are growing dispirited by a Church that increasingly presents itself as a global NGO whose primary concerns are political rather than spiritual. Continue Reading »
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