I recently read a blog post from Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, that used the death of Pope Benedict to score political points. Here is a taste of that post: Ratzinger was a great...
There is a battle raging for control of the Catholic Church. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano’s recent claim that Pope Francis covered-up Theodore McCarrick’s sexual indiscretions is the latest battle in a political holy war between conservative Catholics (supporters of Benedict...
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former apostolic nuncio in Washington D.C., claims that Pope Francis knew that former Archbishop Theodore McCarrick was a “sexual predator and not only covered it up, but brought McCarrick into his inner-circle. Vigano’s 11-page report reads...
One of my favorite religion writers, Mark Silk, thinks so. Here is a taste of his recent piece at Religion News Service: Although Crux’s John Allen likes to pretend otherwise, Roman Catholicism is now clearly divided between the Party of Francis and...
If you haven’t heard, Pope Francis will be visiting the United States later this month. In order to place his visit in historical context, Newsweek is running a piece on the history of papal visits to the United States. Only...
Here is part two of my continuing series on Pope Francis’s Evangelii Gaudium. Liberal Catholics and non-Catholic liberals absolutely love Francis’s treatment of consumer capitalism in this document. My Facebook feed is loaded with liberal friends who are gushing all...
A group of Catholic intellectuals, writing at the new website Solidarity Hall, have posted an open letter to Catholic thinker, author, and public intellectual George Weigel. It is a response to Weigel’s new book, Evangelical Catholicism. The letter is one...
This pic is pretty cool, assuming that it is not photo-shopped. Three Popes in one shot....
Benedict XVI resigned peacefully, but this has not always been the case for popes who exit the office. In his recent Anxious Bench post, Tal Howard of Gordon College reveals the dark side of papal exits. The Apostle Peter was...
It’s official. Benedict XVI will now be known as “emeritus pope.” He will continue to be called “Your Holiness” and will continue to wear the white cassock associated with the papacy. Some Catholics are worried that this new title and […]
Writing at The New Republic, Michael Sean Winters balances Benedict’s conservative doctrine with his progressive politics. Winters argues that “one of the most dominant themes in Benedict’s teaching, especially in the wake of the economic meltdown of 2008, is a […]
Here are the rules, compliments of Mark Movsesian at the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University in New York. It just shows you. Even an institution as ancient and traditional as the papacy still retains the ability […]
In case you have not heard, Benedict XVI will resign the papacy on February 28th. David Austin Walsh of the History News Network has the historical angle of Pope Benedict’s resignation covered. Benedict XVI is not the first Pope to […]
Heath Carter, a historian at Valparaiso University, asks this question today in an insightful post at Religion in American History. Here is a taste: What do the pope and the Occupy movement have in common? No, this is not the...
