Deep nihilism and deceptive scientism Our culture is nihilistic. This is a fundamental premise that guides almost everything I write about. The deep nihilism of modernity is the air that we breathe—our deep worldview of […]
The senior writer at Commonweal magazine, Paul Baumann, has penned a thoughtful essay, titled “Pope Francis & Augustine”, on the current acrimonious debates between various ecclesial factions on the topic of the papacy of Pope […]
One of the things I have learned in my 65 years of being a Catholic is that the meaning of the term “Church reform” in the post-Vatican II era is almost always a cognate for […]
Here we go again with yet another papal controversy over remarks made by Pope Francis to a group of young people in Singapore concerning religious pluralism. My friend Christopher Altieri makes a good case here at […]
In March 2013, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio gave a short speech to the assembled Cardinals before the conclave wherein he described his vision for a Church that was far less “self-referential”. He instead sought a Church […]
Johathan Liedl, a reporter with The National Catholic Register, has written a very important article on one of the more influential theologians of the upcoming Synod on synodality in October. The article got some traction […]
On July 15th, an open letter to Pope Francis was released which asked him not to allow any further restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass (TLM). Titled “An Open Letter from the Americas to Pope […]
The much ballyhooed “synodality” and the “synodal way”, as currently packaged and proposed, violate the principle of subsidiarity. And given the common misconceptions surrounding subsidiarity, that statement needs some unpacking. What is the principle of […]
The term “culture warrior” is often invoked, usually pejoratively, to describe a certain kind of conservative Catholic who fights in the political sphere for the Catholic viewpoint to be enshrined in law on certain hot-button […]
My friend, the journalist Christopher Altieri, says his least favorite form of writing is what he calls “ink on ink”. That is, a form of writing where one publication comments critically on something in a […]
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