3 Key Unanswered Questions About the Pope’s Synodality Plans
COMMENTARY: The synodal process is being positioned as a kind of capstone project for the entire Francis papacy.
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Dresden’s Moral Fallout Continues to Affect Us 80 Years Later
COMMENTARY: The Feb. 13-15, 1945, firebombing of the eastern German city symbolizes the brutality of World War II.
Mary’s Perfect ‘Yes’: Why the Immaculate Conception Was Fitting for Salvation
COMMENTARY: The ‘singular grace and privilege’ of the New Eve was God’s preparation for her fiat.
In the Era of Synodality, ‘Lumen Gentium’ Delivers a Key Message About Episcopal Authority
COMMENTARY: The Second Vatican Council document articulates the proper relationship between papal authority and the authority of bishops, individually and collectively.
Synod Prioritizes Fashionable Trends Over Evangelization
COMMENTARY: This is a wasted opportunity to emphasize that evangelization is the product of a mandate from Christ and the very essence of the Church’s reason for existing.
4 Pillars of the Pope’s Plan to Reform Theological Formation
COMMENTARY: The future of genuinely Catholic theology, at least in the short term, is in the seminaries.
Courage and Outreach: Two Apostolates, Two Paths for Same-Sex Attracted Catholics
COMMENTARY: There is no way to avoid the conclusion that unlike Courage, Outreach does not believe that the Church’s teachings on homosexuality to be fully true and compassionate.
‘Sacrosanctum Concilium’ and the Ongoing Need for Liturgical Reform
COMMENTARY: Does the Novus Ordo Missae fulfill the ultimate aims of the Second Vatican Council? And does it reflect the principles and directives put forward by the Council?
‘Traditionis Custodes’ 3 Years On: Pope Francis’ Latin Mass ‘Motu Proprio’ Has Generated Division, Not Unity
COMMENTARY: Three years later, liturgical wars rage on...
‘Bishop of Rome’: A Theologically Fruitful Clarification of the Church as a Communion of Believers
COMMENTARY: The new document helpfully lays out the internal Catholic debates about the nature and role of the papal office.
