Realities are greater than ideas
So why do Synodality, Social Justice, and other utopian schemes fall on their faces? And how can we make our efforts more productive? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
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Pontiffs and pontificators
Maureen Mullarkey’s characteristically vivid comments on Pope Francis and the environment have drawn much attention from participants in the Internet Francis Wars. One big reason is that her comments sometimes go beyond the vivid to the caustic (“press toads,” “ideologue,” “meddlesome egoist,” “megalomania”). Another is that they were made on her blog at First Things… More ...
Another explanation of the Vatican II debacle
A correspondent forwards the following:
… More ...Another problem for which Vatican II was responsible is what one might call the gentrification of Catholic culture. The fact that Europe’s working classes had largely abandoned Catholicism by the late 1950s enabled Vatican II to concentrate on constructing an essentially middle-class model of what it is to be Catholc.
How religious is natural law?
In the Crisis piece mentioned in the previous entry, I suggested the relationship between the two was ambiguous. A blogger who wants to maintain a strong distinction between natural law and religion called me on it, so I had to develop my thoughts a little.
My answer was that the distinction is important … More ...
Rebuilding Christendom
I make the pitch for mild Catholic separatism in my current column at Catholic World Report.
The Return of Christendom
That’s the title of my latest column at Catholic World Report. It tells us that Christendom is always with us.
Where is all this leading?
My latest at Catholic World Report suggests that secular liberalism won’t have the staying power effectually to suppress Catholicism.
The Church as Archimedes’ fulcrum
Here’s another piece at Crisis, this one about the necessity of the Church as an independent institution in an age of Gleichschaltung.
Smartening up
That’s the topic of my most recent piece at Crisis. It’s a followup to my recent piece on stupidity.
What are Catholics to do? (part III)
There’s some more of my hand-wringing on the topic over at Catholic World Report.