Dear brethren in the Episcopal ministry! The lifting of the excommunication of the four bishops ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre in 1988 without a mandate of the Holy See has led, both within and outside the Catholic Church, for a variety of reasons, to a discussion of such vehemence as we had not ex...

Writing from the Philippines, Lode Wostyn situates the Pope’s book within the development of Christology after Vatican II (East Asian Pastoral Review 45.1, 2008). “Ratzinger’s Christology goes beyond the Councils of Nicaea-Chalcedon by simply erasing all the disagreements and ambiguities that ...

 .   As an effort to mark  the Pauline Year (June 28, 2008-June 29, 2009), I've penned thoughts on 'Pauline Faith, Hope, and Love' (developed from 'Preaching Paul,' The Furrow, December 2008), and 'Phenomennology and Pauline Eschatology' (see sideb...

John R. Donahue raises a troubling question in the current issue of Commonweal: To what extent is the restoration of pre-Vatican II liturgy and ideology a dismantling of the Church's relation to Judaism (painfully recovered at Vatican II)? Also, one wonders to what extent the neuralgic rea...

Golias magazine notes that while the Vatican bends over backwards to accommodate the Society of Pius X it has been full of suspicion and mistrust of another Society, historically its most loyal and competent collaborator, namely the Society of Jesus. Golias lists (I don't know how accurately) th...

FRATERNITÉ SACERDOTALE SAINT-PIE X A Sa Sainteté le pape Benoît XVI Très Saint-Père, C’est dans l’action de grâces que nous désirons exprimer à Votre Sainteté notre profonde reconnaissance pour l’acte de Sa paternelle bonté et de Son courage apostolique par lequel Elle a rendu inopé...

John P. Keenan, with Buster G. Smith, Lansing Davis, Sydney Coop. Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World – with a little help from Nagarjuna. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2009. xii + 123 pp.     [An abridged version of this review can be found in The Japan Mission Journ...

Those who frequent the comboxes of newspapers will know the Bishop Williamson is now a hero and martyr in the eyes of thousands of Holocaust deniers worldwide. He has given new heart to the cause of Holocaust denial. It is rather scary to see neocaths buying into Holocaust denial. I think the reacti...

Fr James Alison, writing from the depths of Brazil, where he seems to be visited by inspiration, has a stirring reflection for the beginning of Lent at http://www.jamesalison.co.uk/texts/eng54.html I am slightly puzzlied by his opening flourish: “One of the strangest features of that weirdly under...

Here is a passage from Pope Benedict's second Encyclical, "Spe Salvi," quoted by "Clayton" in a combox below: "A self-critique of modernity is needed in dialogue with Christianity and its concept of hope. In this dialogue Christians too, in the context of their knowledge...