Pope Francis chose to go to Mass under the gaze of Napoleon rather than Notre Dame under its reconstructed roof. Perhaps new wisdom will come in Corsica about how to deal with tyrants.
Read MoreAdvent comes, a new year beckons. Jubilee 2025 awaits. But after the turmoil of the past year and other points in the current papacy, Rome shows much weariness and little vitality.
Read MoreWhether viewed from starboard or port, the HSS Synodality is sinking. How many are now ready to abandon ship?
Read MoreIn the recent declaration on Medjugorje, the good fruit of visits there is affirmed. But it has not been affirmed that the apparitions themselves are a good tree.
Read MoreBespoke liturgical seasons permit the flourishing of a greater liturgical piety. Some options are hiding in plain sight.
Read MoreFor such an infinitesimally tiny part of the population, Catholic priests show up on screen rather more often than you would expect.
Read MoreThe company we keep is an issue for pastors and political leaders alike.
Read MoreHis is a Catholic approach – if it’s a Catholic approach – to politics that has not been seen in a very long time.
Read MoreVíctor Manuel Fernández has been busy during his first year in office. But has he been effective?
Read MoreIn Joseph Zen and Jimmy Lai, China has its John Fisher and Thomas More.
Read MoreThe academies of 1994 were occasions for Catholics to be proud of genuine intellectual engagement in the service of the faith. Thirty years on it is time to go back to that original promise.
Read MoreOne citation does not a summer make, but perhaps Dignitas marks a spring thaw, and John Paul the Great is now the saint that can come in from the cold.
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For that singular moment in Nazareth, the moon determined whether the sunlight – the Son’s light – would reach the world.
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The Christian vocation to be “another Christ” was lived to such an extent by Francis that the very term alter Christus was applied to him early on.
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It is impossible to imagine that eleven years into John Paul’s pontificate anyone would seriously think it time to begin again to figure out the pontificate.
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The rickety ship Synodality has been taking on water. Pope Francis will heroically try to bring it into port this year before it sinks, but it won’t be easy.
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An ideological group that includes the Orthodox Churches and the Dutch, Hungarian, and Polish bishops, among others, is perhaps not as small as the Vatican would like to think.
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At the Vatican, in the week before Christmas – same-sex blessings were hung by the chimney with care, in the hopes that Fr. James Martin soon would be there.
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