Catholicism
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Divorce and Communion
There were only two occasions in my life as a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in…
What Comes After the Synod
Whatever Pope Francis does in the wake of the Synod on the Family, we have a new…
The Speaker and the Social Doctrine
TRIGGER WARNING: This column will speak well of Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of…
Thin Places
The following is a meditation for All Saints Day presented at Christchurch in Montgomery, Alabama. Several years…
The Saints and All of Us
Written from Rome: Amidst all the Sturm und Drang of Synod-2015, something genuinely new in the life…
Nostra Aetate Fifty Years On
It was, on the face of it, a minor theological gesture, yet it brought about one of…
Letter Number Twenty-Three
This will be the last in this series of LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD, and the final words…
A Family of Saints
If there was one serene moment amidst all the ecclesiastical discord at the recent Synod in Rome,…
Special Edition VI
Those Three Paragraphs in the Synod Final Report or The German Spin Machine in Overdrive Within ninety…
Special Edition V
The Final Report of Synod-2015 The Relatio Finalis [final report] of Synod-2015, adopted this evening by the…
Letter Number Twenty-Two
NEWS …from and about Synod 2015 Today’s Schedule: In the morning, the Synod fathers will hear a…
Letter Number Twenty-One
NEWS…from and about Synod 2015 The general assembly of the Synod of Bishops heard the draft of…
Toasting the Conscience
In Letter to the Duke of Norfolk, Blessed John Henry Newman suggests gamely that religion should never…
Finding the Body of Christ in All These Other Bodies
Justin, known also as “the martyr” for obvious reasons, undertook a defense of Christianity and published his…
Letter Number Twenty
DISQUISITIONS …being thoughts on Synod 2015 from various observers St. John Paul II on the Family: Then…
