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...
The Failures of Reform: A Response to Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy
By Samuel Keyes
Theologians John Cavadini, Mary Healy, and Thomas Weinandy recently published a series of essays as “A Synoptic Look at the Failures and Successes of Post-Vatican II Liturgical Reforms.” The series is important reading for anyone interested ... Read More...
Why Episcopalians Should Read the Pope’s Latest Letter
By Sarah Puryear
This summer a Roman Catholic friend sent me a link to Pope Francis’s latest letter entitled Desiderio desideravi and asked me to read it. I must confess I am not in the habit of reading Pope... Read More...
The Hidden Life of St. Charles of Jesus
By Mac Stewart
At the end of his October 2020 Encyclical on “Fraternity and Social Friendship,” Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis referred to a figure (besides St. Francis) who had inspired the preceding pages by... 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...
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...
Papal Preaching and the Pandemic
This post continues a series of essays on preaching from the perspective of lay people. Previous entries may be found here.
By Neil Dhingra
Perhaps the most haunting photographs from this “Time of the Vir... Read More...