Was Robert Bellarmine Ahead of His Time?
Empire of Souls: Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth. By Stefania Tutino (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 416 pp. ISBN 978-0-19974-053-6. On Temporal and Spiritual Authority. By...
View ArticleMaking sense of another ambiguous “compromise”
Bishop’s Corner The scholar, Yuval Levin, has stressed that the new HHS mandate proposal, “like the versions that have preceded it, betrays a complete lack of understanding of both religious liberty...
View Article“Go Gaily in the Dark” - Alfred the Great and Preservation of Christian...
Alfred the Great and Preservation of Christian Civilization Epigraph From G.K. Chesterton’s The Ballad of the White Horse (words spoken by Mary, the Mother of God, to a sadly dispirited Alfred the...
View ArticleToward a Theology of the Papacy - Reading Between the Lines of the Church...
Reading Between the Lines of the Church FathersMost Catholics seem to know, whether they accept it or not, what the job of the pope is. He sort of runs the Church from a central location; he is...
View ArticleChurch and State in History and Today
Our unwillingness to live our lives upon the horizon of the infinite is an unwillingness to accept the authority of God, who speaks, through his Church, to our consciences. This is the heart of the...
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