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In its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), the Second Vatican Council firmly applied the brakes to “ultramontanism”—the overheated…

The embodiment of Catholic fearlessness, Cardinal George Pell, has gone to his eternal reward.

The generations whose story ends with the funeral and burial of Joseph Ratzinger were something quite special.

One hopes that Pope Francis is also aware that the appointment of a man such as Bishop Wilmer as Prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith would throw into crisis the Synod on Synodality that has become the centerpiece of his pontificate.

Last month’s midterm elections made it painfully clear that many pro-life advocates and politicians are at sea in the post-Roe…

I would like to share with the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops some good news about U.S. Catholicism.

Fidelity to the Holy Father is a Catholic obligation, but it does not involve turning off one’s eyes and brain.

The report leaves the reader with the uneasy feeling that it tells the Vatican’s 2023 synod organizers what they already think and want to hear.

For the sake of the Church, cheerleaders for synodality might profitably read two documents from the International Theological Commission, on the true nature of synodality and sensus fidei in the life of the Church, respectively.

The Church is mater et magistra. She is the teacher, not the pupil.

The synodal process the Church has embarked on—if done well, and honestly, and without the “hermeneutic of rupture” that has dogged Catholic life since Vatican II—can lead to a renewal of Christian faith.

Organizational reforms are important, but conversion – and evangelization – are much more essential.