Whose Bourgeois Morality?

by George Weigel

Those who dismiss critics of Amoris Laetitia as members of a “middle-class lobby” are missing the point.  Continue Reading »

18 Oct 2017

Pope Francis on the Development of Doctrine

by P. J. Smith

Pope Francis recently declared that the death penalty is “per se contrary to the Gospel”—but this statement is flatly untraditional according to Church history. Continue Reading »

16 Oct 2017

The Persecution of Orthodoxy

by Josef Seifert

For questioning the implications of Amoris Laetitia, Josef Seifert was dismissed from his chair at the International Academy of Philosophy.  Continue Reading »

5 Oct 2017

The Pope and the President

by P. J. Smith

In the news coverage this summer, some interesting—and surprising—similarities between Trump and Francis have emerged. Continue Reading »

4 Sep 2017

In Defense of Converts

by Stephen Bullivant

I have a many faults as a Catholic, but having become one is surely one of the few points in my favor. Continue Reading »

28 Jul 2017

Spadaro Contra Franciscum

by P. J. Smith

Fr. Antonio Spadaro’s and Rev. Marcelo Figueroa’s critique of American Christianity is clichéd and uninformed. Continue Reading »

19 Jul 2017

The Good Soldier

by Marco Tosatti

Cardinal Müller experienced life under Francis as a sort of Calvary, but was a good soldier to the end. Continue Reading »

7 Jul 2017

The Pope's Power

by Marco Tosatti

Reforming the Curia has proven difficult. Instead, Pope Francis simply goes around it. Continue Reading »

29 Jun 2017

Waiting for Vatican Reform

by Marco Tosatti

Four years into Francis's pontificate, promised reform efforts remain unimpressive.
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7 Jun 2017

Pope Francis’s Dichotomies

by Paul Seaton

Pope Francis’s thought involves a series of dichotomies: North-South, imperial-populist, ideological-historical, abstract-concrete, and so on. Rourke shows in detail the intellectual formation that gave rise to this eccentric version of the social magisterium. Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017