If the Eucharist is an encounter with the living person of Jesus Christ, then disaffiliation from the Eucharistic liturgy is defection from Jesus Christ himself.
Catholic universities should be open circles: accepting a wide variety of viewpoints without succumbing to a “free market” of ideas that rejects transcendence.
The challenges of Eucharistic coherence and abortion require distinct responses from American bishops. Trying to address them together will only harm them both.
Too often during the pandemic, the Church encouraged us to resent the inconveniences of social distancing instead of supporting us in bearing this cross together.
In Russia, the state uses the Orthodox Church to advance its revisionist agenda, while the Church uses the state to fulfill its own hegemonic ambitions.