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It would have been better if Summorum Pontificum had been left alone
March 28, 2023
On February 21, the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, headed by prefect Cardinal Arthur Roche, issued a rescript, empowering Cardinal Roche with absolute and arbitrary power to grant or deny exceptions to Pope Francis’s 2021 motu proprio letter, Traditionis Custodes, which severely restricts celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).
Synodality: enlarging an empty tent
March 01, 2023
In these pages in November 2021, as the Synod on Synodality was launch-ing, I noted the vagueness of the not-ion of “journeying together”, as it was expressed in the Synod’s Preparatory Docu-ment. Specifically, I complained that the jour-ney has “no defined terminus”. Thus, I asked, “If we do not know where we are going, how
The hope of the Church: Benedict XVI and the path to recovery
February 01, 2023
In 1969, while he was a professor of theology at the University of Regensburg, Fr Joseph Ratzinger gave a radio address in Germany, asking “What will the Church look like in 2000?” The then-future pope’s foresight and analysis are both prophetic and alarming. The speech was not merely concerned with speculating about the future of
Why the ‘US Respect for Marriage Act’ is a work of fiction
January 01, 2023
Disrespecting our institutions
Space, time, and incarnation
December 14, 2022
Catholicism teaches that Christ came physically and materially in time and space
The profound and insightful mind of Peter Kreeft
December 06, 2022
Few, if any, Catholic philosophers are as prolific as the American professor, Peter Kreeft. Over the course of his 85 years, 57 as a professor of philosophy at Boston College, Dr. Kreeft has written scores of books on philosophical, moral, and theological themes. He has the rare gift (if not unique among his peers) of
The feast of Christ the King and the end of political life
November 20, 2022
The difficulty of reconciling Christian faith with political life is as old as Christianity itself. Perhaps the most explicit question put to Jesus about the relationship elicited arguably his most enigmatic response. When asked whether it is lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar, Jesus asks whose picture is on the coin used to pay the tax. When
How to Inhabit Advent with James K A Smith
November 14, 2022
Advent causes us to focus precisely on the temporality of our lives because of the temporality of the Man who is to be born in time to redeem us
The US midterms illustrate the deep ambivalence of voters about what issues matter most
November 09, 2022
The just-completed midterm elections in the United States are a proxy for the deep ambivalence of American voters about what issues matter most and who is best able to address them. In the United States, election day for federal legislators and the President is fixed by statute as the “Tuesday next after the first Monday
The enduring confusion of America’s ‘Wall of Separation Between Church and State’
November 08, 2022
New research by Pew shows that the US public is as conflicted about the relationship of religion to public life as it always has been, writes Ken Craycraft The Pew Research Center is a U.S.-based non-partisan think tank in Washington, D.C. Pew regularly conducts surveys of the opinions of U.S. residents related to religious faith,
Finding truthful witness in fictional saints
October 25, 2022
The saints from the great novels can help us grow in our faith, writes Ken Craycraft One of my daughters, Margaret, recently finished Sigrid Undset’s magisterial trilogy of novels, known collectively as Kristin Lavransdatter. Reading with the eyes of a mother of three young children, Margaret noted her regard for Kristin’s selfless devotion to her own
Finding grace in the presence of evil
September 23, 2022
I am not suggesting that any person is evil. But having had the protective cloak of Roe removed, it is clear that a substantial percentage of pro-abortion advocates seek not simply to protect the purported autonomy of women, but rather to celebrate the killing of (or legality of killing) unborn children
Holy Week and the Politics of (Dis)ordered Love
April 08, 2022
Holy Week reminds us to order our lives toward God and away from ourselves.
Fifty years of The Godfather and the virtue of friendship
March 24, 2022
In the emphasis on family and community life, in contrast to the world of American commercial justice, the film contains a lesson about the virtue of real friendship.
Agency, Contingency, and Self-Destructive Acts
March 09, 2022
The task of living authentic moral lives is to develop the moral virtues that allow us to maintain agency.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Lenten Message to Catholics
February 22, 2022
For Lenten reflection and discipline, Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is among the finest
Ted Lasso, Self-Deception and Reconciliation
February 08, 2022
Through brilliant writing and impeccable comic timing, Ted Lasso resonates with profoundly Catholic themes
Is This the Last Anti-Roe v. Wade Protest?
January 20, 2022
During the weekend of 21-23 January, defenders of unborn human life will make their annual trek to Washington D.C. to express their opposition to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that struck down States’ laws restricting or reasonably regulating abortion. Unlike the prior 47 years, however, this year’s National March for Life will
New Year’s Irresolution
January 03, 2022
As Christians we should order our lives according to the liturgical calendar not the secular one
The Blessed Virgin’s decision as the Perfection of Freedom
December 16, 2021
The Virgin understood that only by giving herself was she truly herself
Discomfort Ye My People: On Advent and Exile
December 02, 2021
Remorse, repentance and resolution.
How Bob Dylan speaks to Catholics
November 15, 2021
After his conversion in 1844, American journalist Orestes Brownson became one of the most influential Catholic public intellectuals of his time, even while maintaining an ongoing conversation with such literary luminaries as Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In a famous 1868 essay, Nature and Grace, Brownson suggested that the “Catholic faith is the reconciler
Challenges to the Texas Heartbeat Act May Yield Different Results
November 04, 2021
On 1st November, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument on two challenges to the Heartbeat Act, a Texas law that bans abortion after the detection of a foetal heartbeat, usually at about 6 weeks of gestation. The cases, Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson and United States v. Texas, were brought by abortionists and
Dave Chappelle and the TERF Wars
October 20, 2021
Chappelle says things that are not only true, but sensitive and insightful.
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