Summing Up Benedict XVI
By Victor Lee Austin
The earthly life of Pope Benedict XVI has come to an end and his body has been committed to its resting place. As with any death, one wonders what this particular life was all about: wha... Read More...
Doctrine Develops, and So Does Liturgy
By Jonathan Mitchican
One of the biggest intellectual challenges to my journey into full communion with the Catholic Church was the idea that doctrine develops. Anglicanism at its best nurtures a love for th... Read More...
Three Popes
By Graham Kings
Introduction
The phrase “Electoral College” has been much discussed recently around the election of the new President of the United States of America. An older “Electoral College,” the Papal Conclave of the College of Cardinals, meets in ... Read More...
Hope as the World Is Ending
By Jonathan Mitchican
Life in the time of coronavirus is hard.The battle that the human race now wages against this pandemic is beyond anything known in our lifetime. Many people have described it as apocaly... Read More...
A Tale of Two Popes
By Matt Boulter
Anyone who remembers Shadowlands, the classic 1993 film about C. S. Lewis, knows that Anthony Hopkins has an uncanny knack for portraying Christian intellectuals who are struggling through an... Read More...
Benedict XVI’s Last Testament and his theological legacy
Benedict XVI's Last Testament and a conference on his theological legacy reveal the great debt we owe to this pope.
What Benedict taught me about liturgy
In 2010, I adopted a two-year-old German Shepherd, and I named him Benedict. There was a man of German descent on Peter's pontifical seat, and I was in seminary: it all seemed very clever. As usual, the Holy Sp... Read More...
Augustinian brothers? Not so fast
Hard to believe the suggestion that Rowan and Benedict are anti-Thomists. But perhaps they did resist a contemporary “stripping of the altars.”