Catholicism
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Theological Deplorables
Presumably out of deference to the current pontificate, almost nobody is saying something that is obvious and…
Letters From the Synod-2018: #2
COMMENTARY IMPROVING THE 2018 INSTRUMENTUM LABORIS: PART ONE Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary general of the Synod of…
Letters From the Synod-2018: #1
As the Synod Opens…. Rome is putting on its best autumnal face as Synod-2018 opens. The days…
Courage in the Slough of Despond
I never took a class from the historian Frank Orlando, but the motto he placed in the…
The Papal Foundation & McCarrick’s Conflict of Interest
On July 28, 2018 the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had accepted Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s resignation from…
The Synod on Youth: An Exchange
On September 21, Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles J. Chaput presented a critique of the Instrumentum Laboris for the…
An Orthodox Fracture With Serious Consequences
While Catholicism has been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the…
Men of Lawlessness
St. Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians that the Day of the Lord cannot come “unless the…
Thoughts on the Instrumentum Laboris
Over the past several months, I’ve received scores of emails and letters from laypeople, clergy, theologians, and…
You Are Peter
You may know this story, but it bears repeating. On October 27, 1984, Cardinal Jaime Sin of the…
Maintenance vs. Mission
Just when the Long Lent of 2002 was coming to a boil in March of that year,…
A Letter From Young Clergy
This letter to the members of the Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational…
Saving Synod-2018 From Itself
Anyone looking for a remedy for insomnia might try working through the Instrumentum Laboris, or “working document,”…
We Will Not Yield
In 1977 my parents came to the difficult conclusion that there was no future for them and…
The Imperative of the Imperium
In “The End of the Imperial Episcopate,” Fr. Jay Scott Newman speculates about the Church’s current situation. One…
