Readings: • Is 49:14-15 • Ps 62:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 • 1 Cor 4:1-5 • Mt 6:24-34 The most succinct commentary on today’s Gospel can be found just a few verses earlier in the Matthew […]
The debates over admission of divorced-and-remarried Catholics to holy Communion in the wake of Amoris have focused almost exclusively on what is just one canonical problem: the public reception of holy Communion by public sinners. But there are other, canonically distinct, […]
Fiorella De Maria is an award-winning author who was born in Italy of Maltese parents and grew up in Wiltshire, England. She received a BA in English Literature and a Masters in Renaissance Literature from […]
Last year’s news was packed with reports of polling results. Debates over what the data reveal and how best to respond to what they portend saturated talk shows and opinion pieces. Most of the chatter, […]
Cardinal Vincent Nichols’ echoing of claims that Amoris laetitia changed no doctrines occasioned a question for me: Am I the only (or among the few) Amoris critics who agrees with Amorisdefenders that Pope Francis made no doctrinal changes in Amoris? I do not think that […]
The official gun-related teaching of the Catholic Church is not entirely clear. There’s little doubt, however, about how the current hierarchy leans: they favor fewer guns in civilian hands. (I’ve discussed this in a series […]
MPAA Rating: R USCCB Rating: AIII Reel Rating: (3 out of 5 reels) The history of “Fatima’s century” is marked with blood, perhaps most famously with the Holocaust and the six million Jews who were […]
Some preliminaries: I quite agree that the United Nations is a sad, and sometimes malicious, joke. I understand that some people have been the victims of a globalized world economy and that the “Davos people” […]
Anyone even vaguely acquainted with my work knows that I advocate vigorous argument on behalf of religious truth. I have long called for a revival in what is classically known as apologetics, the defense of […]
The Catholic bishops of South Sudan have condemned as immoral and senseless a complex war in their country, which has proven far bloodier than that of the Islamic State in Syria. The war in Africa’s […]
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