Books
A new book from … Fulton Sheen!
Publishing is often a pain and a drain, but it is not without a few pleasures. When I started ACS Books as an arm of the American Chesterton Society, it was fun to bring some […]
Year: 2017
Interview
Journalist Peter Seewald: Pope Benedict is “one of the most misunderstood personalities of our time”
It is well-known that Pope Francis regularly grants interviews to various media outlets, and has done so since the earliest days of his papacy. As a result, it seems as if each successive interview is […]
Film & Music
Is the Organ Really a Sacred Instrument?
The Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, the document shaping modern Catholic liturgy, has much to say about the music of the Mass, including this: In the Latin Church the pipe organ is […]
Lessons from an era of confusion
In the introduction to Aggiornamento on the Hill of Janus: The American College in Rome, 1955-1979, Msgr. Stephen DiGiovanni warns readers that his book will be most easily understood by students and alumni of the […]
Ecclesia et Civitas
What is “Pro-Life”?
In America, “pro-life“ mostly means “anti-abortion.“ The name helps counter the “pro-choice“ brand and emphasize the positive concerns at stake. It also supports closely-related concerns such as euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, and various reproductive […]
General
Six years on, the UK Ordinariate continues to “go forward in faith”
It’s been six years. I remember sitting in a guest house at EWTN in Alabama—where I was working on a new history-and-traditions series at the time—and watching, via my computer, a great event unfolding in […]
Sojourns with Schall
Catholics and the Present Confusion
All through the modern era, the primary accusation against Catholicism was its clarity, its being too sure of what reason and revelation meant. It was arrogant. Imagine her claiming that she had a handle on […]
On the Perpetual Virginity of Mary: A Response to Peter Leithart
At his First Things blog, Peter Leithart attempts to explain why St. Matthew claims Joseph did not “know” his wife, Mary, until she gave birth to her son, Jesus (Matt. 1:25). His answer is that […]
Film & Music
City of Stars and Boulevard of Broken Dreams
MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating:NR Reel Rating: (5 out of 5 reels) As a general rule, it is considered poor technique to write in first person when composing a formal essay or column, and even […]
Analysis
Is Fr. Paul Keller’s essay really the way “Amoris Laetitia” should be read?
Apologies for the length of this post. It always takes more time to correct errors than it takes to make them. In Fr. Paul Keller’s CRUX essay, “Case study in communion for the divorced/remarried”, we confront […]