The ‘Synodality’ Masquerade
November 13, 2019
During the 2001 Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, who’d suffered through a lot of synodal speechifying and...
George Weigel
Fearlessness and the U.S. Bishops in Rome
November 6, 2019
I once knew a Congregationalist minister — Yale Divinity School graduate, decorated World War II chaplain, veteran campaigner for then-unpopular...
A New Cardinal Honors An Entire Nation
October 30, 2019
ROME — Even the greatest enthusiasts of the present pontificate might not assert that Pope Francis has an inspiring liturgical...
The Ideological Hijacking of Pope St. John XXIII
October 23, 2019
ROME. With his liturgical memorial (October 11) falling on the fourth full day of the Special Synod for Amazonia, which...
Historical Clarity and Today’s Catholic Contentions
October 16, 2019
One of the curiosities of the 21st-century Catholic debate is that many Catholic traditionalists (especially integralists) and a high percentage...
What Kind of ‘Believers’?
October 9, 2019
This past June, I was in the Munich area for four days, giving a public lecture on Evangelical Catholicism and...
The Model New Evangelization Bishop
October 2, 2019
Out on the Kansas plains, he was just turning 21 when the Second Vatican Council promulgated its Dogmatic Constitution on...
Balderdash on the Tiber
September 25, 2019
Today’s first reading is from an explication of the academic program of the reconfigured Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute...
Ironies in the Fire
September 18, 2019
The eminent sociologist Peter Rossi was a world-class punster whose scholarly accomplishments fed a sometimes-whimsical view of the human condition...
Australian Justice In the Dock
September 11, 2019
Consider this sequence of events, familiar to some but evidently not to others: