Synodality and sanctity
Pope Benedict XVI often said that, in today's skeptical and cynical world, the saints make a more persuasive case for the truth of Christianity than the most sophisticated arguments. One has to wonder, ...
A laborious, and vacuous, instrument
It would not be quite accurate to describe the Working Document for the October 2023 Synod (its "Instrumentum Laboris," or IL) as "disappointing." No one who has followed the "synodal process" underway ...
Latinity and sanctity: Remembering Bishop Victor Galeone
On first encountering Father Victor B. Galeone at Baltimore's St. Paul Latin High School in September 1965, my freshman classmates and I didn't imagine we were meeting the future bishop of St. ...
The Summer Reading List, 2023 edition
Few of the following qualify as "beach reading;" they all qualify as good reading. In graduate school, I was informed that there was no such thing as "biblical theology," only textual analysis. Bishop ...
The wimps of summer
When I dip into life's memory bank for moments of unalloyed joy, the afternoon of Oct. 9, 1966, quickly surfaces. On a brilliant autumnal Sunday, I was sitting with my Grandfather Weigel behind ...
The Vatican as peacemaker in Ukraine?
A few days after Cardinal Matteo Zuppi's appointment as head of a Vatican "peace mission" to "help ease tensions in the conflict in Ukraine" (as Vatican News put it), a startling picture appeared ...
John Paul II's 'Centesimus Annus' and today's debates
In a recent article on the social doctrine of John Paul II in the Jesuit journal La CiviltÀ Cattolica, Father Fernando de la Iglesia Viguiristi, SJ, had this to say about one facet of John Paul's ...
Ike's insight
Three days before Christmas 1952 and a month before his inauguration as the 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the Freedoms Foundation at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. ...
