A sub-category of News.
In Two Families: A Memoir of English Life During and After the Council, Joseph Bevan peels back the curtain on one family’s devastating encounter with liturgical revolution, and another’s inspiring emergence from the ruins. Both of these families are his own, considered in each direction of the family tree: he begins by recounting life with…
The close of the synod a few months ago created a media buzz around the discussion of increasing women’s ministerial roles within the Church hierarchy, including ordination to the diaconate. There was a worldly clamor for “inclusiveness” and to “enlarge the spiritual motherhood” of women. The question of a female diaconate was seemingly punted down…
His breadth of knowledge and experience is so vast that it is nearly impossible to write a headline about Michael Walsh. Pianist, to be sure; fancy music school, recitals in Budapest, foreign correspondent during the Cold War, opera critic, literary critic, screenwriter, book author. Walsh has a new book out this week—his 20th—called A Rage…
The post-doctoral dissertation of the young Joseph Ratzinger, The Theology of History in Saint Bonaventure,[1] introduces us to the heart of the great medieval debates on the profound meanings of history. Through this work, I first encountered the eschatological interpretation developed by the seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor within the context…
The announcement set the Catholic infosphere abuzz: Bishop Robert Barron’s Word On Fire apostolate is now set to grow in a new direction by adding a small group of priestly religious to its roster. That news came at almost the same time as the revelation that an existing religious community, Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, was being…
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) lost little time in releasing an initial response to the slew of executive orders flying off the president’s desk. Having witnessed the knee-jerk modus operandi of the Roman Curia from the inside, my impression is that the Church’s perceived need to issue speedy, timely statements on every…
“You’re so violent.” The blonde was only sore that I forcefully shoved her out of the way of her frisbee catch, giving our team a chance to win and depriving her’s of winning for the time being. She walked away without another word. But the strange word “violent” was still resounding in my ears. Of…
Some things are worse than a devastating fire. Notre-Dame de Paris proves the point. While its façade, walls, and roof have been restored to a pristine perfection, its interior liturgical appointments tell another story. But the vestments. The vestments were the pièce de résistance. They were worn by the Archbishop of Paris and his attendants….
Who would have thought the perfect answer to a question that has long eluded the experts and thought leaders among us would come from so unlikely a source as the newly-inaugurated 47th President of the United States? Or that of all the applause lines in a speech that garnered so many, his answer would prove…
Three hundred years ago, on the night of January 27–28, 1725, one of the most important and controversial tsars in Russian history died: Peter I the Great. His transformative vision reshaped not only the political landscape of Russia but also its cultural and artistic identity. Born in Moscow 52 years earlier, Peter Romanov, the son…
