LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD - 2019: #7
Edited by Xavier Rynne IIAt Synod-2019, some are mounting another assault on the Catholic practice of admitting only men to Holy Orders. Continue Reading »
Poland Polarized
by Filip MazurczakPolish society continues to reject the neoliberal economic policies of previous governments. But it is as painfully polarized as ever.
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Letters From the Synod-2019: #6
Edited by Xavier Rynne IIThe conversation at Synod-2019 drinks more deeply from the wells of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Margaret Mead than from the living waters of biblical revelation. Continue Reading »
Human Dignity Redefined
by Peter HitchensIn Britain, the belief that God created male and female has been declared “incompatible with human dignity.” Continue Reading »
Houellebecq and the Death of Europe
by John WatersMichel Houellebecq books are documents of an internal forensics of human decline that happen to take the form of stories. 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 »
Historical Clarity and Today’s Catholic Contentions
by George WeigelContrary to both traditionalist and progressive misconceptions, Catholicism was not a placid institution, free of controversy and contention, prior to Vatican II. Continue Reading »
Letters From the Synod–2019: #5
Edited by Xavier Rynne IIA lot of the ideas dominating the synod’s first ten days seem to have been exported from western Europe—including an almost apocalyptic concern for “Mother/Sister Earth,” and a consequent squeamishness about proposing Jesus Christ as Lord and Redeemer. Continue Reading »
Letters From the Synod–2019: #4
Edited by Xavier Rynne IIWe honor the memory of John Henry Newman, this newest of God’s saints, by imitating his courage, and the conviction that underwrote it. Continue Reading »
Beto's Woke Integralism
by Ed CondonMagisterial progressivism requires an integralist state to entrench its teachings, and Beto’s bid for the power to compel obedience and destroy through the tax system is the obvious stick to reach for. Continue Reading »
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