I caught Gone Girl on the heels of a debate with another Catholic in the film industry about director David Fincher. “He’s too nihilistic,” says my friend, remarking on Fincher’s forte in the bleak and […]
As we celebrate St. John Paul II’s first official feast day, it strikes me that a extraordinary thing about the extraordinary Synod on the Family was the near absence of any reference to the teaching […]
Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, R.I. has posted some short—curt?—”random thoughts” on the recently concluded extraordinary Synod on the Family. He offers a warning about capitulation to the dominant culture: In trying to accommodate […]
“What difference does it make?” was Hillary Clinton’s frustrated retort to Congress last year when pressed about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. Putting aside legal and political issues, the former First Lady […]
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” It will not survive; it will die. That was the view of the Faith when I was younger. Now, over 40 years later, […]
Rome – I am zipping the last stray items into my luggage. As I prepare to depart from Rome after the Extraordinary Synod on the Family there are dozens of emails yet unanswered from friends […]
[Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator.] It was October 19, 1984—30 years ago this week. A gentle, courageous, and genuinely holy priest, Jerzy Popieluszko, age 37, found himself in a ghastly […]
The controversy about statements made last week about African bishops and their contributions to the Synod on the Family by the Roman Curial prelate Cardinal Walter Kasper continues. Most recently BILD-Zeitung [a German tabloid newspaper] […]
Upon becoming director of media relations for the American bishops in late 1969, I quickly made a crucial discovery about my new employers. With just a handful of exceptions, the bishops were painfully naïve about […]
In a third short interview with CWR, conducted by e-mail late yesterday, Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, the Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, offers his impression of the Relatio Synodi, comments on […]
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