Homosexuality and Authentic Freedom
The tragic impasse that exists in our culture on the issue of homosexuality stems from two errors. [...]
View ArticleMoral order, the current mess, and a theological reading of history
"As I explain in several essays in the book," says George Weigel about The Fragility of Order: Catholic Reflections on Turbulent Times, "our politics are [...]
View ArticleWhy I would not have interviewed Milo
I have three reasons why Milo Yiannopoulos is so toxic that no one—and certainly no Catholic—ought to have given him a platform to promote his ideas free of any but the most gentle and sparse [...]
View ArticleSquandering moral capital
The morality of tyrannicide is not much discussed in today’s kinder, gentler Catholic Church. Yet that difficult subject once engaged some of Catholicism’s finest minds, including Thomas Aquinas and...
View ArticleThree Births and the Third Person of the Trinity
Readings: • Acts 2:1-11 • Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 • 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Rom 8:8-17 • Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 14:15-16, 23b-26 He is silent, yet sounds like rushing wind; he [...]
View ArticleOne cheer for George Will’s The Conservative Sensibility
I have been following George Will’s thought for a long time. I’m old enough to remember when his column occupied the last page of Newsweek magazine every other week and when he sat in the [...]
View ArticleA Saintly View of Vatican II
“By canonizing some of the faithful, i.e., by solemnly proclaiming that they practiced heroic virtue and lived in fidelity to God’s grace, the Church recognizes the power of the Spirit of holiness...
View ArticleThe True Spirit of Vatican II
As far as I know, no participant in the Second Vatican Council summed up its goals or described its spirit as addressing the question whether God’s truth and love are effective, that is, whether they...
View ArticleA Deeper Context: Overlooked book provides insight into Vatican II debates
In the first year of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI famously recalled the Second Vatican Council, which had ended 40 years previously. Benedict, with the steely-eyed realism that has marked his...
View ArticleThe Message and the Man: A review of Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton
MPAA Rating: NR USCCB Rating: NR Reel Rating: 5 out of 5 reels Prior to seeing this documentary, which opens in theaters on October 9th, I knew nothing about Fr. Patrick Peyton. This is surprising [...]
View Article“Find your own Calcutta”: On Betsy DeVos’ address at Ave Maria University
Service has the connotation of some event or deed happening mainly from a spirit of generosity, not from pay or coercion. At the heart of [...]
View Article40,000 Catholics make pilgrimage to Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland
Pilgrims arrive at Jasna Gora shrine to pray before Our Lady of Częstochowa. / Photo courtesy of @JasnaGoraNews. Rome Newsroom, Aug 17, 2021 / 10:00 am (CNA). Nearly 40,000 Catholic pilgrims journeyed...
View ArticleLabor Day Lessons from St. Teresa of Calcutta
Mother Teresa teaches us that work must be based in love in order to be truly fruitful. This truth applies to all work, whether one [...]
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The Papal Foundation provides $800K in scholarships for studies in Rome
Cupola of St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City / CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 16, 2021 / 09:34 am (CNA). The Papal Foundation has awarded nearly $800,000 in scholarships to 96 priests, brothers,...
View ArticleHow John Paul II’s theology of the body unpacks and explains “Humanae Vitae”
Andrew Cannon, Ph.D., is the author of Mere Marriage: Sexual Difference and Catholic Doctrine. The book has been described by Rev. Dennis J. Billy, CSsR, the Robert F. Leavitt Distinguished Chair in...
View ArticleEconomics, politics, and the parables of Christ: An interview with Fr. Robert...
Fr. Robert Sirico is President Emeritus of the Acton Institute and the retired pastor emeritus of Sacred Heart Parish in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of numerous essays and several books,...
View ArticleThe false binary between progressive accommodators and “rad trad”...
Much ink has been spilled on the recent comments by the Holy Father concerning his assertion that the Second Vatican Council has been “gagged” by “restorationists”. Pope Francis specifically mentioned...
View ArticleAnother assault on John Paul II
On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II had lunch in the papal apartment with Dr. Jerome Lejeune, the renowned French pediatrician and geneticist who identified the chromosomal abnormality that causes Down...
View ArticleCatholic colleges and universities owe students an apology
For more than forty years, Catholic liberal arts colleges have, to put it mildly, struggled to carve out a recognizable intellectual and educational place in the ever-shifting landscape of American...
View ArticleThe Way of the Exile: A Review of Prophet
MPAA Rating: Not rated at the time of this review USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels Nearly every Catholic knows that Pope St. John [...]
View ArticleBoomers or bust? On Vatican II and generational arguments
I recently penned a Crisis online article, titled “OK Boomer: It’s time to move on from Vatican II,” which (unbelievably to me) received responses from George Weigel and Dr. Larry Chapp. I respect the...
View ArticleJohn Paul II and me (and the Poles)
In the first chapter of Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy quoted an exasperated Congressman, John Steven McGroarty, who wrote an irritating constituent in these neatly acerbic terms: One of the...
View ArticleGames theologians play with truth and morality
Not too long ago, Randall Smith accused Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of playing Jenga with Catholic theology. Jenga is a game in which players take turns removing crisscrossed wooden blocks that make up...
View ArticleThe refined, problematic casuistry of Abp. Fernández’s defense of chapter 8...
Archbishop Fernández's essay on the controversial eighth chapter of Amoris Laetitia attempted to dispel doubts about that papal document's orthodoxy but has only raised more [...]
View Article“Holy Virgin, Holy Mother, assumed into Heaven, pray for us.”
The witness of Mary needs to be highlighted for the benefit of all women and for the good of all society. In her dual identity [...]
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