On September 16, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released a new note about interreligious dialogue titled A Journey of Hope: Sixty Years of Interreligious Dialogue and Fraternity in the Light of the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate. There’s a lot of good to say about A Journey of Hope (JOH);...
I keep coming back to the same question: Why the dishonesty? I genuinely do not understand how people who hold themselves out as traditional, orthodox, faithful Catholics can be so ruthless in distorting the truth about other Catholics. I cannot see into anyone’s heart, but after nearly a decade of open and obvious...
Few men have been more misrepresented than Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli), the pope who led the Catholic Church from 1939-1958. Pius XII was a man of extraordinary faith, virtue, courage and charity, who proclaimed the truths of Catholicism and exemplified them in his personal life. Yet in the contentious debates surrounding World...
On September 16, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released a new note about interreligious dialogue titled A Journey of Hope: Sixty Years of Interreligious Dialogue and Fraternity in the Light of the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate. There’s a lot of good to say about A Journey of Hope (JOH);...
I keep coming back to the same question: Why the dishonesty? I genuinely do not understand how people who hold themselves out as traditional, orthodox, faithful Catholics can be so ruthless in distorting the truth about other Catholics. I cannot see into anyone’s heart, but after nearly a decade of open and obvious...
Few men have been more misrepresented than Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli), the pope who led the Catholic Church from 1939-1958. Pius XII was a man of extraordinary faith, virtue, courage and charity, who proclaimed the truths of Catholicism and exemplified them in his personal life. Yet in the contentious debates surrounding World...
The note Journey of Hope was released jointly this week by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, and the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue.[1] The note calls us to look back on the sixty years since the promulgation of Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the Relation...
In 2025 a record forty-five percent of Americans told Gallup they belonged to neither party, the highest share since the pollster began asking in 1988; Democrats and Republicans drew twenty-seven percent apiece. Both major parties now draw unfavorable marks from most Americans. Heading into this fall’s midterms, more than two hundred independents are...
A homily for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Before turning my attention to St. Paul, whose great letter to the Romans is the source for today’s second reading, I’d like to note the opening lines from our first reading, taken from the Book of Sirach: “Wrath and anger are hateful things. Yet...
After reading about Bishop Thomas Paprocki’s new funeral restrictions in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois, I felt compelled to ask a question on X: “What is it about a certain type of Catholic who wants to strip everything human, personal, or emotional from worship and liturgy?” The ensuing discussion was not reassuring....
Today we’re kicking off Season Three! And we’re starting with something a little different. Earlier this month I was a part of a panel discussion with Aimee Murphy about Pope Leo’s encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. The panel was for a young adult group in my new diocese. And I’m excited to share it with...
(Today is the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Many years ago, I wrote a long reflection on the tragedy and its implications for Godspy. After discussion with our editorial board, I had intended to update it and republish. On reading it again, however, I found that what I had written was not only the still-meaningful...
Editor’s note: Quod a nobis, promulgated by Pope St. Pius V on July 9, 1568, revised and promulgated the Roman Breviary following the Council of Trent. Two years later, Pius V issued Quo primum, which performed a parallel role for the Roman Missal. Quod a nobis is much less familiar, but it is an...
As God’s people enter the Promised Land, Moses presented the choice ahead of them: “I have placed before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live” (Deut 30:19). Similarly, Pope Leo begins his first encyclical by presenting us with the choice we face...
We are all familiar with the passage from the Book of Habakkuk that seems to have been a favorite of St. Paul (he cites it in three different letters – or four, for anyone who credits the Letter to the Hebrews to him): The righteous live by their faith. In Lumen Fidei, Pope...
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