The dubia regarding Amoris Laetitia and Veritatis Splendor have gone unanswered, leaving individuals, including bishops and priests, to work out how to proceed when the latter condemns what the former proposes. The easiest solution is simply to ignore that Veritatis Splendor exists.
Read MoreAretha Franklin grew up in the black church, with its rich gospel music traditions. Her father was a pastor, and she ministered with her voice.
Read MoreWhen built in 1906, St Boniface Cathedral in Winnipeg stood as a monument of Canadian evangelization in the West. Its replacement points instead to an absence.
Read MoreMBS wants a more dynamic, moderate Saudi Arabia to be the heir to Ottoman-era influence, an alternative to the militancy of Iran or the failed pan-Arab nationalism of the 1960s. But he wants on it on his own terms.
Read MoreAngry writing is fitting when anger is the fitting response. Most times anger is not the best response. But because it usually is not the best response doesn’t mean that it never is.
Read MoreVeritatis Splendor rejected at length the objections that Paul VI faced in his time, namely that in teaching the truth about the moral law, the Church was lacking in compassion and in respect for freedom.
Read MoreBureaucratic shuffling rarely has much effect on the Church’s mission. But it does reflect how those doing the shuffling think.
Read MoreWhy is there such an urge to head out to the cottage, when a more relaxing weekend might be had at home? Perhaps there is something deeper within our desire to travel.
Read MoreAfter fifty years it appears that what Pope Paul VI warned us about has come true. Men would begin to treat women more as objects to be used rather than potential collaborators in a family project.
Read MoreFather Raymond writes what he hopes a brother bishop might privately say directly to the ex-cardinal, who should not be a passive actor in all of this.
Read MoreThirty years ago, Rome made the relevant claims on behalf of the Ukrainian Catholics, on the millennium of the baptism of the Kievan Rus. Today, Major-Archbishop Shevchuk does the same in Kiev. But the Holy See appears to have forgotten the position it took in 1988.
Read MoreHumanae Vitae’s publication was an event of epochal significance – an infamous act, or a prophetic one. Fifty years on, it remains such.
Read MoreThere is something about death and place. We mark graves with far greater care than the places where people lived. Death marks a place in a way that life does not.
Read MoreIn this noisiest of noisy presidencies, the silence of the Queen was refreshing.
Read MoreThe bravery of the Special Olympians earns our praise. The bravery in those competing and the bravery of the parents who allow those with intellectual disabilities to live.
Read MoreCatholic marriage is a particular way of living the life of discipleship; the marital vocation is one way of living the mission received in baptism. Priests ought to be involved in marriage preparation because it is about following Christ, serving the communion of the Church and participating in her evangelical mission.
Read MoreMemories are never only about the past. They shape the present. Which is why they need to be respected and honoured. Auschwitz still does that admirably well, despite the missteps of the past year by the Polish government.
Read MoreThe removal of the Office of Religious Freedom and replacing it with the Office of Human Rights, Freedoms and Inclusion signaled the end of any significant activity.
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