The temptation to respond to attacks with force can be severe. Over four decades of columnizing in the Catholic press and elsewhere, I have generally resisted those temptations except under the gravest provocations. This is one of those occasions. Continue Reading »
In To Sanctify the World, I suggest that the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI should be understood as one, continuous, thirty-five-year arc of conciliar interpretation. Continue Reading »
Surely one assassination attempt against the pope whose teaching and example animate the living parts of the world Church was enough. Continue Reading »
Those demeaning John Paul’s intellectual and moral heroism in a lame attempt to defend the Liquid Catholicism that has proven an evangelical failure everywhere are examples of intellectual exhaustion and evangelical cowardice in the face of woke cultural aggression. Continue Reading »
To fully understand the meaning of the attempted assassination of John Paul II forty years ago, it is necessary to go back to 1966 and ahead to 2000. Continue Reading »
If more of the old canonization system had been in place, the McCarrick Report would certainly have delayed John Paul II’s canonization. Continue Reading »