Orthodoxy

Benedict Stands on the Ramparts

by Dr. Robert Moynihan January 22, 2013

“I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts.” —Habakkuk 2:1
I don’t quite know how to say this, so I’ll just be blunt: Pope Benedict is saying incredible things, yet no one seems to be listening. …

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Is Gambling a Sin?

by Fr. William Saunders January 2, 2013

My Baptist friend says that gambling is a sin. Yet, I know many good Catholics who visit places like Atlantic City and Las Vegas, and play slot machines and the like, or schools that have casino nights as fund raisers.…

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The Left’s Latest Call for the Ordination of Women

by Kenneth D. Whitehead December 31, 2012

In early December the independent and very liberal National Catholic Reporter weekly newspaper published a long, carefully reasoned editorial declaring that “The Ordination of Women Would Correct an Injustice.” If the Church were deliberately perpetrating an injustice in the matter…

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Sacred Language For Sacred Acts

by George Weigel December 4, 2012

It was just about a year ago that U.S. parishes began using the new translations of the Third Edition of the Roman Missal—an implementation process that seems to have gone far more smoothly than some anticipated. Wrinkles remain to be…

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Vatican II: the View From the Pew

by Robert Hutchinson October 30, 2012

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council, I’ve begun reading John O’Malley’s magisterial history, What Happened at Vatican II.  It’s a fascinating chronicle of the great theological earthquake that shook the Church to…

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Glenn Beck: “I Don’t Understand How Nancy Pelosi Can Say That She’s a Catholic”

by Gail Finke September 27, 2012

Tuesday night’s Catholic Vote conference call with Glenn Beck and 144,000 or so of his biggest Catholic fans didn’t break much new ground.
Fans will not be surprised to hear that he talked about Dietrich Bonhoeffer (one of his heroes)…

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A Year of Faith, a Synod of Bishops and You

by Russell Shaw September 21, 2012

Listen to Archbishop Rino Fisichella and at first you might suppose that the new evangelization was a pretty simple affair. Declaring the “path” of evangelization to be clear in Scripture and tradition, he puts it like this:
“We are called…

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The Catholic Woman Voter

by Cheryl Dickow September 20, 2012

“The hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of women is being acknowledged in its fullness, the hour in which women acquire in the world an influence, an effect and a power never hitherto achieved. That is…

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The Church and the False Political Divide

by Paul Wilson September 6, 2012

There is an unfortunate tendency to view the Catholic Church as divided into “liberal” and “conservative” wings. This vision results from the modern age’s foolish tendency to view every issue through a binary political prism.
This vision is fundamentally flawed.…

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Asking Our Bishops to Raise the Stakes

by Anthony Esolen August 16, 2012

Recently I caught ten minutes of a ghastly television show called House.  It’s a medical drama whose scripts, filming, direction, and acting cover the spectrum from dour to grim.  The doctors were attempting to determine why an eighteen-year-old girl was…

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