One of the primary problems with the implementation of a more “synodal” Church is that there seems to be a double standard in play. Rome speaks a good game about wanting to develop more “collaborative” […]
If we want our social and political efforts to be useful, their direction should depend on the way the world is going. But people aren’t good at reading the signs of the times. As Yogi […]
America Magazine recently ran an article by Mary McAuliffe entitled “Women and LGBTQ Catholics are paying the price for church unity” (Jan. 2, 2024). The essay is completely unremarkable except insofar as it underscores and […]
F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent film Nosferatu is a landmark of early cinema, memorialized in the Catholic world by its inclusion on the 1995 Vatican Film List. In the opening title card, the film calls itself “a symphony […]
“Even though the New China continues to reject Christianity and tries to wipe away all traces of Christianity from its land, a dialog between Christianity and Mao’s ideology is essential.” — Fr. Domenico Grasso, SJi […]
If you’re living and breathing in 2024, you doubtlessly already know that our culture is awash in confusion about what it means to be human. In a way like never before, clichés like “my body, […]
Amy Welborn recently penned a spot-on analysis of the recent missive from Cardinal Blase Cupich informing the members of his diocese that kneeling to receive communion is no longer permitted. Cardinal Cupich does not explicitly […]
Progressives believe in “progress,” which, in practice, means extending the “arc of history”—the general tendency of thought and social organization—toward a windowless global technocracy that manages the whole of life. Many people—including Catholics who merge […]
French novelist, poet, and critic Michel Houellebecq is a pessimist and a controversialist. He is also a realist, and in his latest novel, Annihilation, he writes, “However much one might despise, or even hate, one’s […]
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 […]
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