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Riots, Technocrats, and Normality
What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, […]
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Progressives and the problem of being more Francis than the pope
The highly anticipated and now much discussed post-synodal apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia struck me as mostly workmanlike. That’s not to dismiss the importance of the text, or to overlook significant passages. Nor is it to […]
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2009-2019: A decade spent exchanging the truth for a lie
“The Word took on our humanity and in exchange human nature was raised to the divine dignity. The second act of the exchange consists in our real and intimate participation in the divine nature of […]
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Enough Nones-sense—let’s settle for nothing but Truth
There has been a fair amount of discussion and commentary among Catholics in recent years about “Nones,” notably the work of Bishop Robert Barron, who last week “outlined five paths Church leaders should take to […]
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The passive-aggressive pontificate continues—and the Synod approaches
Update (Sept. 11, 2019): A full CNA transcript of the in-flight papal press conference from Madagascar is now available. Almost six years ago, in October 2013, I wrote my first piece critical of Pope Francis—a […]
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How about Catholic defenses of slavery, Nazism, and pornography?
“At any given moment,” wrote the author, translator, and publisher Frank Sheed in The Church and I (1974), “one or other special problem looms to complicate things for the Church, looms and fades. But throughout […]
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Editorial: Benedict XVI’s essay is both insightful and incomplete
Reaction to the unexpected release of a lengthy text—almost exactly 6,000 words in all—by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, titled “The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse”, has been both swift and polarized. Some have […]
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Fidelity or Idolatry? The conflict behind us, the crisis among us, the choice before us
“Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God.” — Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2113 “For the grace of God has […]
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The Pope fiddles, the bishops fumble, and the laity fume
I haven’t written an editorial since late July, in part because of the heavy and unceasing flood of news—most of it bad and some of it terrible—within the Church. In my last editorial, posted on […]
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Without truth there is no trust, and without trust…
This is not a time for silence, mediocrity, or fear for the laity or the bishops. The rot and corruption must be outed; the truth […]