2022’s Continuing COVID Conversation
COMMENTARY: In 2021, everybody saw that the football stadiums are as full as they used to be. The Catholic churches are not.
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Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s Pastoral Approach Echoes Through the Catholic Church Today
COMMENTARY: There are lessons to be learned from the Chicago cardinal, who died 25 years ago, in today’s climate of synodality.
Who Wants the Pope to Die?
COMMENTARY: Thankfully there have been few public expressions of this morbid sentiment during the current papacy, in contrast to the situation during the papacies of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
President Biden, Pope Francis and Canon Law
COMMENTARY: If what Biden says the Holy Father said is true, what they were discussing comes under Canon 916, not 915.
Pope St. John Paul II Lived His Priesthood as an Oblation
COMMENTARY: On the 75th anniversary of his priestly ordination, we recall Karol Wojtyła, who ended as he had begun, living a priesthood signed by suffering.
Poland’s New ‘Blesseds’ and Divine Providence
COMMENTARY: The Sept. 12 beatifications of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński and Mother Elżbieta Róża Czacka contain many layers of spiritual fruit.
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński: ‘The Primate of the Millennium’
COMMENTARY: The Church leader, who will be beatified Sept. 12 in Warsaw, was the living incarnation of Poland’s 20th-century experience.
Ten Takeaways from Pope Francis’ Latest Interview
COMMENTARY: The Holy Father’s comments raise questions regarding a number of key issues, including relations with China, celebration of the traditional Latin Mass, and how he gets the information he needs to make decisions.
Father Joseph Koterski Exemplified the Best of the Society of Jesus
COMMENTARY: The longtime Fordham philosopher died Aug. 9 at the age of 67.
Pope Francis’ Motu Proprio Places New Burden on Bishops, Particularly on Cardinal Gregory
COMMENTARY: Many will weigh how the Pope’s man in Washington handles the divisions related to the ‘Traditionis Custodes’ and the extraordinary form while pro-abortion Catholic politicians readily receive Holy Communion in the same archdiocese.
