Catholicism

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The Miracle of “We”

R. R. Reno

This essay is an excerpt from R. R. Reno’s new book Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism,…

LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD-2019: #9

Xavier Rynne II

THERE’S A PONY IN HERE SOMEWHERE: A POST-SYNODAL REFLECTION BY GEORGE WEIGEL According to his longtime consigliere, Edwin Meese, President Ronald…

The Synod’s Dissenters

Dan Hitchens

Barack Obama announced in 2012 that religious liberty was “an inalienable right that is enshrined in our Constitution. As…

The Ideological Hijacking of Pope St. John XXIII

George Weigel

ROME. With his liturgical memorial (October 11) falling on the fourth full day of the Special Synod…

Letters From the Synod-2019: #8

Xavier Rynne II

“INCULTURATION” AND THE CULTURE THAT IS THE CHURCH by George Weigel “Inculturation” has been a buzzword throughout…

LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD-2019: #7

Xavier Rynne II

The synods of 2014 and 2015, called to examine the grave challenges posed to marriage and family…

Poland Polarized

Filip Mazurczak

In the recent Polish election, the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) received 43.59 percent of the…

Letters From the Synod-2019: #6

Xavier Rynne II

“Guests” on Planet Earth? At a gathering of like-minded scribes and media commentators shortly after Synod-2019 began,…

The Amazon Synod Is a Sign of the Times

Douglas Farrow

The Synod of the Amazon is a sign of the times. So its Instrumentum laboris says. Who…

Historical Clarity and Today’s Catholic Contentions

George Weigel

One of the curiosities of the 21st-century Catholic debate is that many Catholic traditionalists (especially integralists) and…

Letters From the Synod–2019: #5

Xavier Rynne II

What Would John Paul II Have Said? Forty-one years ago today, the cardinal archbishop of Cracow, Karol…

Letters From the Synod–2019: #4

Xavier Rynne II

On Saturday, October 12, the Thomistic Institute at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (familiarly known…

Newman’s Shocking Faith

Dan Hitchens

How was the interfaith meeting? As a person of faith—by which I mean that you can tick…

Letters From the Synod–2019: #3

Xavier Rynne II

THE NEO-COLONIALISM OF BISHOP KRÄUTLER There has been considerable venting about “neo-colonialism” in the first week of…

A New Saint on St. Stephen’s Green

Dermot Quinn

Ireland has produced many saints, and John Henry Newman is the latest. Newman was not Irish, of…