I've been re-reading St. Augustine's City of God lately, both for the TCT course I'm teaching this Fall but also because it’s the most insightful—and influential—Catholic meditation on religion and politics.
The pontificate of Pope Francis seems to feel most comfortable in the immediate post-conciliar period, yet those who desire to drag the Church back to 1972 must contend with the colossal interpretative legacy of John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
In comments to a gathering of conservative Catholic college professors recently, I remarked that in modern times American Catholicism has experienced two major crises: the post-Conciliar crisis right after Vatican Council II and the post-post-Conciliar crisis now underway with no end in sight.
As the diocesan phase of the Synod on Synodality closed, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops collated the data by region.
"If we achieve great things outside of ourselves, and the achieving of them does not effect any change or development in ourselves, we have done nothing...
At the root of modern judicial theory, or at least in its vicinity, is the question of Money.
Some people say that there has never been a harder time in the United States to be Catholic.
