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In Support of Jimmy Lai

A letter from ten bishops urging the release of Jimmy Lai should encourage Catholics who care about the basic human rights of religious freedom, free speech, and freedom of the press. Continue Reading »

15 Nov 2023

The Shadow of Failure

by Ross Douthat

I am grateful to Edmund Waldstein for his kind response to my essay, and for his writings on these subjects generally. I am especially grateful in this case for his crisp elucidation of the Maritain–De Koninck debate and its implications for contemporary arguments, a subject whose subtleties I . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2022

Letters

by Various

I don’t suppose it will be easy for Carl Trueman (“Turning Inward,” December 2019) and me to avoid talking past each other, but let’s give it a try. My book, The Meaning of Protestant Theology, is not an effort to engage with secondary literature. (Gerhard Forde? Never read him; don’t . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2020

A New Cardinal Honors an Entire Nation

by George Weigel

Sigitas 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 »

30 Oct 2019

Letters From the Synod–2019: #5

Edited by Xavier Rynne II

A 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 »

16 Oct 2019

Letters From the Synod–2019: #3

Edited by Xavier Rynne II

The “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 »

11 Oct 2019

Ecumenical Winter?

by Michael Root

In 1870, during a plenary session of the First Vatican Council, the Croatian bishop Josip Strossmayer complained that the introduction to what would become the Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith contained an unnecessary and false claim that modern unbelief could be traced to Protestantism. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2018

50 Years of Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue

by Mathew Block

The recently released document Declaration on the Way reflects on fifty years of Lutheran-Catholic dialogue. What new avenues can we expect the dialogue to take in the future, now that the International Lutheran Council is also in dialogue with Roman Catholics? Continue Reading »

8 Jan 2016

Are Lutherans Catholic?