Has Leo found hidden value in reversing Francis’ financial policies? (The Pillar): “What does the pope have his predecessor didn’t: new information, improving results, or just a different attitude?”
The treasure the Jesuits squandered (Catholic Culture): “Some of us are determined that [Father Paul Mankowski’s] life and work—and the gross injustice done to him by the Society of Jesus—should not be forgotten.”
The Incomplete Work of Renewal (What We Need Now): “One of the most dangerous temptations that has grown for leaders advocating for this renewal is to define and attempt it by simply shifting the forms and structures of the Church.”
Secularism or Pluralism? Canada’s Effort to Balance Disestablishment with Religious Freedom (Providence): “Like many democratic countries, Canada continues to wrestle with the place of religion in public life, most recently in disputations on the role of military chaplains.”
Msgr. Roger Landry restricted from ministry during investigation into alleged misconduct (America): “Msgr. Roger J. Landry has taken a temporary leave from his position as director of the Pontifical Mission Societies USA, following allegations he violated priestly conduct codes for two dioceses with which he is affiliated.”
The “Synodality” Enigma. Cardinal Brandmüller Explains How Not to Fall Into Mephistopheles’s Traps (diakonos.be): “Leo also shows that he means to strengthen the old-style synods, on the classical model, like those made up only of bishops that govern the Eastern Catholic Churches, including the major archbishoprics, as in Ukraine.”
To Help Muslims, Reject Islamists (Wall Street Journal): “My fellow Americans went out of their way to support me after 9/11. They’re too accepting of extremists.”
The Medina ‘Constitution’ and the Myth of Islam’s Democratic Origins (The European Conservative): “Describing the Medina document as evidence of ‘constitutional democracy’ in contemporary terms imposes modern ideas onto a seventh-century Arabian society where such concepts were clearly not present.”
Third-Party’ Punishment is Not Catholic (The Catholic Thing):“The Church offers a different way of understanding correction, a truly Christian ethic based on a proper anthropology, an understanding of human weakness, of repentance, forgiveness, and redemption that enables us to overcome errors.”
Why Catholics Should Read Classic Fiction (Crisis Magazine):”Classic fiction will help Catholics to grow in wisdom and virtue through the literary presence of goodness, truth, and beauty.”
Craig on finitism and presentism (Edward Feser): “William Lane Craig’s influential presentation of the [kalām] argument defends the claim in several ways, one of which is by arguing that a beginningless universe would amount to an actual infinite, and that an actual infinite is impossible.
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