Improving the Church
Decades ago, American conservatives used to say that liberalism was “creeping socialism.” It wasn’t true at the time – although…
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Decades ago, American conservatives used to say that liberalism was “creeping socialism.” It wasn’t true at the time – although…
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As a student at the Catholic University of Lublin in 1990, I wrote a paper opposing then-Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz…
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People often ask me: What can I do about the current state of the Church and the world? The question…
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It’s time to get radical on campuses everywhere. I mean radical, as in a return to roots. There has been…
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Rievaulx Abbey, in the moors of north Yorkshire in England, is a ruin – approachable only by tourists. Yet spiritually,…
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It’s common these days to lament polarization in the Church. The divisions within the Body of Christ may not be…
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The Bishops of the United States have initiated a Eucharistic Revival and will be discussing it today at their annual…
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The whole business of the “synod on synodality” is above my head. So I’m not sure how a synod on…
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Who was she really? Can we even agree on what to call her? Is she Mary Magdalene or Mary Magdalen;…
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A central question amid all the controversy about Catholic liturgy these days is: what are the purposes of liturgy? The…
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I’m writing on November 9, one day after the “most significant election in American history,” as some people were saying,…
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In Germany during the 1920s and early ‘30s Hitler and his Nazis pursued a clever strategy on their road to…
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