Shifting Structures in World Christianity
October 31, 2018
The recent decision by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to grant autocephaly to a unified Ukrainian Orthodox Church – which...
George Weigel
A Public Church, Not a Partisan Church
October 24, 2018
The temptation to ally the Church with a particular political party and its program is a perennial one, it seems....
John Paul II, Youth Minister
October 17, 2018
POLE THAT HE WAS, Karol Wojtyla had a well-developed sense of historical irony. So from his present position in the...
Having Courage in the Slough of Despond
October 3, 2018
I NEVER TOOK a class from historian Frank Orlando, but the motto he placed in the faculty section of my...
Putin, Orthodoxy and the ‘Vatican Bogeyman’
September 26, 2018
WHILE CATHOLICISM HAS been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the highest levels of...
Maintenance vs. Mission
September 19, 2018
In pondering the reform of the episcopate for the future, the distinction between maintenance and mission should be at the...
Saving Synod 2018 From Itself
September 12, 2018
ANYONE LOOKING FOR a remedy for insomnia might try working through the Instrumentum Laboris (IL), or “working document,” for the...
Full Immersion Catholicism
September 5, 2018
AS THIS CATHOLIC annus horribilis continues to unfold, perhaps some good news is in order; first, a little background.
Why We Stay and The Vigano Testimony
August 29, 2018
In the immediate aftermath of Archbishop Carlo-Maria Vigano’s “Testimony,” and its statement that Pope Francis knew of the dereliction of...
Fackenheim’s Law and the Current Catholic Crisis
August 22, 2018
Catholics filled with righteous anger over the vile behavior of the former archbishop of Washington, Theodore McCarrick, and Catholics determined...