Why Was the Synod So Silent on the Traditional Latin Mass?
One of the persistent criticisms of the final assembly of the Synod on Synodality has been that, despite its frequent emphasis on listening and dialogue, several relevant and important voices went unheard. In his final assessment of the synod, George Weigel identified some of these voices as happily married couples, Catholic educators resisting today’s “woke” culture, and healthcare professionals living a culture of life.
What Hath Commonweal Wrought? Catholic Lay Opinion Journalism 100 Years Later...
I went through a brief phase in the mid 1990s where I would have called myself a “Commonweal Catholic.” It was already long past the midcentury golden age described by the Times. But the Times description of Commonweal “as a kind of Catholic version of The New Republic” resonates with me, for reasons different than those meant by the Times. At the height of The New Republic’s Marty Peretz era, in the 1980s and ‘90s...
Some Thoughts Upon Returning from the Second Session of the Synod...
I returned just a few days ago from the second session of the Synod on Synodality in Rome, and I will confess to feeling a tad exhausted. As I’ve mentioned before, the synod is a full four weeks long, and the workdays are intense. So, though it was, to be sure, a rich experience, I’m glad that it’s over, and I’m glad to be home. I would like to share with you some general impressions and assessments of the experience and also look at a few particular issues that were discussed in the synod’s final document.
3 Ways to Rediscover a Father...
Much of what we need in life we must ask for. As this is simply a given, it points to the importance of learning how, what, and whom to ask. Thomas Aquinas holds that we can naturally know that there is a God who can help us, and who is worthy of honor and worship. But to know God as a Father, and to approach him as such, is yet another thing.
Kamala Harris hoped to ride abortion to another post-Dobbs Democratic victory. It didn’t work...
Being Prophets, the News, and Giant Asteroids...
You already know it’s election day, and you’ve probably already voted. You might also know that today is the customary feast of Sts. Elizabeth and Zechariah, the parents of John the Baptist. Elizabeth and Zechariah were prophets. They saw the presence of God in the world, and they said so. And they raised their son to be a prophet too, with Zechariah telling John from infancy...
What You Should Know About the Tower of Babel...
In the story of the great flood, we saw how evil and sin had grown so fast and become so serious that God saw it necessary to cleanse the whole world and dramatically prune the human family. While the flood was a severe measure, that tells us how bad the problem had become! The flood was like a giant “bath” that cleansed the world, making an end of sin and new beginning for goodness to grow.
Pope Francis at Gregorian University Warns of ‘Coca-Cola Spirituality’...
10 Things You Should Know About the Prophet Isaiah...
The Book of Isaiah is known as the fifth Gospel. While this title is often applied to the Holy Land, the Church Fathers also used it to describe the book of Isaiah. More than any other prophet, Isaiah points forward time and again to Christ. Appropriately, therefore, the book of Isaiah is second only to the Psalms in being the biblical book most quoted in the New Testament.
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Jeffrey Grob Named Next Archbishop of Milwaukee...
Live Your Life With an Eye on Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell...
Last Night, Court Reports, and Fly Away Home...
‘A Bible Made of Stone and Glass’: Chartres Cathedral Celebrates 1,000 Years of Its Foundation...
A person should eat well. This requires 2 arts and 2 virtues...
What the NY Times missed in the latest encyclical: The whole point...
Woman Who Lost Husband on Honeymoon Marks First Wedding Anniversary With Striking Video...
If He Only Had a Heart: Tesla’s Tin Man and the Love of Christ...
How you can get a plenary indulgence by praying for the faithful departed this week...
John Paul II: Communism fell because people under its yoke took ‘the risk of freedom’...
Bret Stephens: A Party of Prigs and Pontificators Suffers a Humiliating Defeat [NYTimes Paywall]...
3 States Reject Pro-Abortion Ballot Measures While 7 Other States Expand Abortion...
Pride, After a Fall...
Iam relieved to find that Pope Francis has refrained from saying that someday we may be conferring, or pretending to confer, Holy Orders upon women. It keeps alive the possibility that the churches East and West may reunite. It averts an inevitable and devastating schism. It allows the faithful to retain their trust that, as Sigrid Undset’s convert Paul Selmer says in The Burning Bush, it is the Church’s boast not to have changed her doctrine, so that what we believe is but an organic development of truths revealed already to the apostles.
I’ll Give You $10,000 If You Can Beat My Rock, Paper, Scissors Robot...
Silent Thought, Loud Control: The Lurid Rise of ‘Thought Crime’ in Modern Britain...
Do not underestimate what a resentful attitude can do to your relationship with Jesus Christ...
At one time or another many of us have expressed a desire for something or someone. Whether the desire entails a specific food, location, time to pray, or attention from another person, the need to have these desires met is part of our human condition. We are created to experience both spiritual and physical desires that when properly ordered express genuine gratitude toward God our Father...
6 Takeaways from the Gospel on the Two Great Commandments of Love...
The question from the scribe about the commandments comes after a number of challenges to Jesus on the week he died. First, Herodians and Pharisees and Sadducees tried to trap him with tough questions, and Jesus did verbal jiu jitsu to win each time while teaching something important. But that isn’t what happens here, in the Gospel of Mark...
Pope’s Sunday Angelus: ‘The Source of Everything Is Love’...
Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil: ‘The Whole Middle East Is Burning’...
Surrounded by Halloween witchery, Catholics in Salem wage a battle for souls...
On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in the Witch City, America’s unofficial Halloween capital, thousands of people are passing by a lay Catholic street preacher. Some are wearing skin-tight black skeleton costumes, others vampire hoods and makeup, and some look like demons. Most are revelers, celebrating Halloween a little early. But others have intense looks on their faces, as if this is game day.
From DC’s Hall of the Americas, Helen Alvaré and others speak on Religious Freedom...
Hard times a’ comin’, whoever wins...
Shortly after taking office, British foreign secretary David Lammy described the “nature crisis” as a greater threat than terrorism because the nature crisis is “more fundamental,” “systemic,” “pervasive,” and “accelerating toward us at pace.” The Rt. Hon. Member for Tottenham was right. He just had the wrong “nature” in mind.
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