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Letters From the Synod 2023: Special Edition 4
BETWEEN SYNODAL ASSEMBLIES: THE DECONSTRUCTION PROJECT CONTINUES The second assembly of the “Synod on Synodality: For a…
The Cure to Our Social Breakdown
My Christian friends are intrigued when they visit my Orthodox Jewish neighborhood just outside Washington, D.C. It…
Letters From the Synod 2023: #9
“Domus Australia,” a pilgrim guest house and hotel near the Porta Pia in the Castro Pretorio neighborhood…
Questions to Enliven Synod-2023
The first session of the “Synod on Synodality,” currently meeting in Rome, is slated to be followed…
Letters from the Synod 2023: #6
THE “OFF-BROADWAY” SYNOD, NEOCOLONIALISM, AFRICA RISING—AND VERITATIS SPLENDOR The action at Synod-2023 is not confined to the…
Letters fronm the Synod 2023: #3
THOUGHTS ON “CONVERSATIONS IN THE SPIRIT” The name of the methodology being used in Synod-2023’s small-group discussions,…
Letters From the Synod 2023: Special Edition
A LETTER FROM CARDINAL JOSEPH ZEN Editor’s Note Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, SDB, was born in Shanghai…
The Most Important Catholic Event Since Vatican II?
Those most enthusiastic about the Synod on Synodality that opens on October 4 are wont to say…
Letters from the Synod 2023: #1
A Note from the Editor During Synod-2014, the first of two such international meetings to discuss the…
Just War, Just Peace, and Ukraine
Carl von Clausewitz, the nineteenth-century Prussian military theorist whose masterpiece, On War, is still studied today, is…
The Good Life After Graduation
As I returned home after graduation this spring, I felt, as many recent graduates do, disoriented. A…
The Dark Future of Over-the-Counter Contraception
For the first time, an oral contraceptive is going to be available over the counter, without a…
Eucharistic Donkeys
Humans are like donkeys. The Bible’s word for “donkey” is, literally, “burden-bearer” (hypo-zugion). Like donkeys, you and…
Synod 2023: Reversing Vatican II?
The first words of the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church—one of the council’s two…
Why We Need First Things
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