The Dispatch
“You have to decide.”
Father Karol Wojtyła’s signature phrase as a confessor and spiritual director was, “You have to decide.” And it had nothing to do with a notion being […]
John Paul II
General
USCCB committee election a referendum on what it means to be pro-life
At issue, fundamentally, is how the bishops understand what it means to be “pro-life.” While Naumann’s election would signal continuity with the current approach, Cupich’s […]
The Dispatch
The stuff of faith
An interview with Mike and Grace Aquilina, co-authors of new book that presents the history of the Church through a hundred different objects, including from a […]
The Dispatch
On the 40th anniversary of the first Evangelical-Catholic dialogue on mission
The starting point of the 1977 conversations was how Catholics and Evangelicals serve the same mission of evangelizing, drawing people to God, using different approaches […]
Features
Catholic theologians must set an example of intellectual honesty: A reply to Prof. Robert Fastiggi
In order to defend the suggestion that a pope could teach that capital punishment is always and intrinsically immoral, you have to maintain that the […]
The Dispatch
Sententia communis? Just ‘sententia communis’?
Many of the assertions hitherto listed by theologians with a surfeit of restraint as merely, say, “sententia communis” might, upon closer investigation in light of […]
The Dispatch
Capital Punishment and the Papal Magisterium: A Response to Dr. Edward Feser
The issue is not so much whether prior popes were in error in their scriptural citations. The issue is whether their scriptural appeals qualify as […]
Analysis
On capital punishment, even the pope’s defenders are confused
There simply is no way to make an absolute condemnation of capital punishment consistent with past scriptural and papal teaching. The only way out of […]
Features
From Bukowski to Benedict
The cinema was once the light in which I sought purpose and escape. And then I was issued a challenge I could not escape: To […]
Features
Whose bourgeois morality?
We have met the bourgeois lobby, and it consists of German-speaking bishops. […]