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Ratzinger, Vatican II, and the Idea of Synodality
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Grow Up
Friday, July 28, 2023
Catering to the Obsessions of the Bourgeois Elite
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Maccabean Lessons about Heroism
Monday, August 1, 2022
Is Vatican II “Spent”?
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Authentic Reform, without Schism
Saturday, October 16, 2021
Grandparents, Great-Grandparents, and the Great Tradition
Monday, July 26, 2021
Is This What the Church Needs Just Now?
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
A Little Clarity on Some Big Questions
Monday, June 28, 2021
Language Barriers
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Dare to be Irrelevant
Sunday, June 13, 2021
Freedom for Form
Saturday, March 6, 2021
Concerning “Synodality”
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
The Church in Crisis
Monday, December 14, 2020
The Danger of Closing Gaps
Friday, November 13, 2020
Amy Barrett and the Intolerable
Thursday, October 15, 2020
The Purpose of ‘Fratelli Tutti’
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Clerical Leadership
Friday, October 2, 2020
Banish Sin, Transform the Church
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Christ, the Church, Culture, and Cardinal Cupich
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Real Presence
Saturday, May 9, 2020
On Being a Hearer and a Doer
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Inculturation and the Law of Evangelization
Sunday, November 10, 2019
The Amazonian “Paradigm”
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
The Problem of the “Two Synods”
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom?
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Social “Science” at the JPII Institute
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
The Latest Confusion in Rome
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
“Man-made Religion”
Sunday, July 7, 2019
Liberal, As It Was
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Appropriating Catholic Social Teaching for Partisan Purposes
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Shifting Models of Synodality
Thursday, November 15, 2018
A Synod also on Vocational Discernment
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
What “Future” without Children?
Friday, October 12, 2018
Papal Aspirations: Day One
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Thinking the Unthinkable
Saturday, September 29, 2018
The Church is Holy
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Restoring Confidence in the Catholic Faith
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Understanding Our Secular Era
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Our True “Identity”
Sunday, June 24, 2018
Divine Providence Still Guides Us
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Of Popes, Bishops, Priests – and the Bridge Too Far
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
The Fruits of Soft Discipline
Thursday, October 26, 2017
A New – and Encouraging – Form of Collegiality?
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Is There an Official Catholic Position on Islam?
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
The Mysterious Coalescence
Friday, October 14, 2016
Conversion: How far does it go?
Sunday, July 17, 2016
The Church and Islam
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Letting the Secular In
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Discipline versus Doctrine
Monday, November 30, 2015
