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Letter Number Three

Xavier Rynne II

Skip to… IMPORTANT VOICES MISCELLANY DISQUISITIONS …BEING THOUGHTS ON SYNOD 2015 FROM VARIOUS OBSERVERS Questions of Process,…

Letter Number Two

Xavier Rynne II

Skip to… IMPORTANT VOICES DISQUISITIONS …BEING THOUGHTS ON SYNOD 2015 FROM VARIOUS OBSERVERS As a general rule,…

Synod 2015 Hopes

George Weigel

The XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Family begins with Mass in…

Letter Number One

Xavier Rynne II

Skip to… DISQUISITIONS IMPORTANT VOICES MISCELLANY By way of introduction… In summoning last October’s special meeting of…

Catholic Census

Leah Libresco Sargeant

I never got closer than a football field to Pope Francis when he visited Washington D.C., but…

The Folly of Lifestyle Ecumenism

Michael Pakaluk

Lifestyle Ecumenism” is the view that Catholics should practice today a kind of “ecumenism” towards persons in…

Trashing Luther

Russell E. Saltzman

Theological hobbyists of a hyper-Catholic sort continue to misconstrue Luther’s “errors.” Oh, I hardly think he was…

When Francis Came to Cuba

Carlos Eire

We should cheer any time a pope mingles with sinners. It’s what Jesus did, and what his…

Lessons from the Rough Rider for Today’s Political Ruffians

George Weigel

Sitting at a writing-desk in the White House on December 11, 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt was an…

Anthropological Pessimism and Theological Hope

Matthew Schmitz

In July 2013, while flying home from World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Pope Francis fielded…

A Benign Reading of a Confusing Paragraph

Janet E. Smith

When I was asked to sign the Appeal critiquing Paragraph 137, I initially agreed with the reading of…

Popes in These United States

George Weigel

The history of popes in these United States is full of surprises. And one of them, to…

An Appeal

David S. Crawford

An Instrumentum laboris (working paper) was prepared for the XIV Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops…

Pope Francis’s Words of Affirmation

William Doino Jr.

During a recent televised video conference hosted by ABC’s 20/20, Pope Francis spoke to several American Catholics…

A Franciscan Moment

Timothy George

Evangelicalism is best understood as a renewal movement within the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. Across…