Applying the truths of the faith to the complexities of life is not a matter of logic alone... But if they stretch truth to the breaking point, they’re unlikely to be pastorally effective.
Fake history+
It does Pope Francis no good service to demean his two predecessors as rigid ideologues.
The Persecution of Professor Esolen+
Catholic higher education is uniquely positioned to do something about these twinned problems of historical amnesia and political-cultural corruption.
The end of an era, the interment of an event+
The Al Smith Dinner has become the Al Smith Embarrassment. It’s time to give thanks for what it once did – and then give it a decent burial.
The Vatican, China and evangelical prudence+
Recent remarks by the Vatican’s Secretary of State have fueled speculation about a possible exchange of diplomatic representation between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China.
Catholicism’s empty quarter+
Québec, a flourishing Catholic region for centuries, is now Catholicism’s empty quarter in the Western Hemisphere.
There are not “two popes”+
Whatever else a “pope emeritus” may be, he is emphatically not “the pope.”
Intolerance and evangelization+
Is there no courage to be different left on the Catholic left?
