Revisiting the ‘Spirit of Vatican II’
COMMENTARY: Now is the time to once again return to the actual conciliar texts, and those of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, in order to expose the capitulation to the spirit of the age.
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The Papal Interview, Cardinal McElroy and Father Martin
COMMENTARY: While the Holy Father’s January interview with The Associated Press yielded some encouraging words, some of his actions make it difficult to interpret his intentions.
Pope Benedict and the ‘Liturgy Wars’
COMMENTARY: The late Pope sought to restore to pride of place the concept of the Mass as an action of God himself acting in and through the priest to bring the Paschal Mystery into our midst once again.
Joseph Ratzinger, Breathtakingly Brilliant Theologian
COMMENTARY: Both scholarly and yet accessible, Joseph Ratzinger’s Christocentric approach brought a clarity of thought that the Church will still be digesting decades, if not centuries, from now.
Germany’s Synodal Way Takes a Boring Route
COMMENTARY: The synodal path is merely a symptom of a bigger problem: The Church is dealing with de facto atheists who believe in secular modernity more than they believe in the Christ of the Church.
Catholics’ Primary Politics
COMMENTARY: How we organize ourselves socially and politically is not a spiritual irrelevance for the Christian and the Gospel does indeed have deep political implications.
What Does the Universal Call to Holiness Look Like Today?
COMMENTARY: Christ’s call has become domesticated and tame in order to make it conform to the modernity’s cult of bourgeois well-being.
Vatican II Sought True Liturgical Reform
COMMENTARY: As the Council hoped, it is possible to celebrate the new rites of the Mass with sacred beauty.
Desiderio Desideravi: Connecting Some Papal Dots
COMMENTARY: One could make a strong case that the ecclesiology of Vatican II, and not the liturgy, is the real target of the most recent document from Pope Francis.
Understanding Pope Francis: It’s the Moral Theology, Stupid
COMMENTARY: Something serious does seem to be afoot with this papacy that differs markedly from its predecessors, and that ‘something’ is a revolutionary change in moral theology.
