Lent is a season of reflection—but also a season to prepare for the work ahead, to sweep aside everything that has not worked and find new ways through the desert.
The final twist in ‘Conclave’ is hardly sensationalistic: it raises real questions about how the Church accommodates people outside binaries of sex and gender.
“As Francis has magnificently shown us, a pope serves the People of God with a total self-giving, ad vitam: in sickness or in health, strong or frail, able-bodied or wheelchair-bound, clear in voice or raspy and breathless.”
The risk of nuclear war is higher now than it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Catholic principles of just peace can move us back from the brink.
The 1950 Jubilee Year was a landmark moment for American Catholics, who were coming into their own power—and wealth—during an era of Cold War upheaval.
Can I still keep using this Catholic education to understand the world if I’m no longer Catholic? Can I even still ask the curriculum’s questions if I’m no longer professing the faith that animates them?
Modern progressivism suffers from three prejudices, each woven into our understanding of key values: equality, toleration, individual freedom, and scientific advancement.
Like all human institutions, the Church has often failed. But it is more than its failures—and much more than the endless quarrels over Vatican II or sexual morality.
The Trump-Vance presidency has the characteristics of an “übermagisterium” aiming to replace the teaching of the Church with a political-religious ideology.
