Update: Vatican News has now published a “provisional English translation”. This morning, Cardinal Raymond Burke and four other Cardinals published two sets of “dubia” that they sent to Pope Francis this summer. They submitted the first set of dubia on July 10, and received a response from Pope Francis on July 11. Unsatisfied...
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A reflection on the readings of October 1, 2023 — the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. When available, the audio of this homily will be available here. For three Sundays in a row, including today, we have had a different parable: the parable of the unforgiving debtor, the parable of the workers in the...
Earlier today, a dedication ceremony was held for a new Memorial Monument in Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, at the gravesite of Dred Scott. Scott was an enslaved man who is best known for his role as the plaintiff in Scott v. Sanford, an 1857 Supreme Court case deciding that African Americans were...
I thus had a favourable opportunity to renew my sentiments of esteem for the Muslims and for the Islamic civilizations. At the same time, I was able to insist on the importance of Christians and Muslims working together for humankind, for life and for peace and justice, reasserting that the distinction between the...
Today Pope Francis met with members of the Brazilian organization Família da Esperança, which cares for people in desperate situations like drug addiction and HIV/AIDS. His address to them can be read on the Vatican website. It touches on familiar themes of Francis’s papacy like solidarity, hope, and what he often calls peripheries...
We spend most of our lives hiding behind our true selves. It’s pitiful, honestly. I’m nearly 50 years old and I still spend much of my time worried about what others will think. Does it really matter? A few years ago, I was convinced I would die of a mysterious viral disease and...
Last week, the traditionalist blog Rorate Caeli posted a four-part response by Dr. John Lamont to a review of Peter Kwasniewski’s book, True Obedience in the Church: A Guide to Discernment in Challenging Times (Sophia Institute Press, Kindle Edition, $9.99) by the French priest Henry Donneaud, OP, in the Dominican journal Revue thomiste....
Prior to my conversion to the Catholic faith, I witnessed various forms of anti-Catholicism — ranging from casual to extreme — within the Protestant milieu in which I grew up. Comments such as “Catholics are going to Hell,” “The Pope is the Antichrist,” “Catholics are idolatrous pagans,” “The Catholic Church killed millions of...
Dominic and I return for another discussion on important topics in and around the Catholic Church, including the pope’s recent trip to Marseille, the controversy surrounding priest and artist Marko Rupnik, and the latest on the controversial Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler. Notes: (1) Pope Francis visited the French port city of Marseille,...
My daily goal of posting at least one article on the site didn’t happen yesterday. I spent most of my day working on a complicated article about ecclesiology and Church authority, stopping to respond to emails, read article submissions, keep track of the news in the Catholic world, and speak to sources about...
A reflection on the readings for September 24, 2023, the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time The first book of the Bible, Genesis, contains the story of the first set of brothers — Cain and Abel. In the tale, Cain is a farmer and Abel a shepherd. When Cain offers God the results of...
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