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MOUNT CARMEL – In an era where Catholic churches continue to consolidate or worse, close, there remains a growing segment of the faithful that is actually growing, albeit slowly. This

Perhaps no thinker influenced Catholic theology in the 20th century more than Yves Congar, O.P.

MOUNT CARMEL – In an era where Catholic churches continue to consolidate or worse, close, there remains a growing segment of the faithful that is actually growing, albeit slowly. This

MOUNT CARMEL – In an era where Catholic churches continue to consolidate or worse, close, there remains a segment of the faithful that is actually gro...

Postmodern relativism or dialogue of salvation?

Holiness is priority one, but it is not the only thing needed. We still need a large dose of basic human competence guided by genuine human prudence.

Chapter 16 (pp. 141-145) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised second edition: 17 August 2013; slightly Ch. 16 of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; slightly revised again in November 2023 for the purpose of the free online version).

Ruth Burrows, as the Carmelite nun Sister Rachel Gregory was known through her books, who has died aged 100, became a leading exponent of the life of prayer.

Francis “limits himself to generic phrases on anti-Semitism, refusing to align the Catholic Church in an unequivocal way against anti-Semitism in all the forms with which it’s presenting itself,” said Lucetta Scaraffia.

With this key document from the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis laid out his priorities and revealed his closeness to the ideas of Paul VI.