Facts without Truth, Truths without Facts

Lessons from the mystics

By Paul Senz on Sep 04, 2020 02:01 am
Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, where she directs the Center for Religion, Culture, and Civil Society, and also serves as editor-at-large of National Review magazine. Her columns appear [..]
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Facts without Truth, Truths without Facts

By Aquae Regiae on Sep 03, 2020 08:54 pm
There is an old saying, which is as certain in its meaning as it is uncertain in its origins: “Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” Destruction is preceded by delusion. This idea, [...]
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A Deeper Context: Overlooked book provides insight into Vatican II debates

By Conor Dugan on Sep 02, 2020 10:16 pm
In the first year of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI famously recalled the Second Vatican Council, which had ended 40 years previously. Benedict, with the steely-eyed realism that has marked his whole life, posed hard [...]
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Analysis: The art of China’s Vatican deal

By Catholic News Agency on Sep 02, 2020 08:21 pm
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 2, 2020 / 05:00 pm (CNA).- Next month, the 2018 Vatican-China deal expires. Those close to the negotiations, both in Rome and in Beijing, now confidently predict a one-year extension to [...]
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Christ at the center of the Council

By George Weigel on Sep 02, 2020 04:00 am
Conversations with Father Robert Imbelli have been a great blessing in recent years. I have rarely met a more even-tempered and gracious man: a true churchman who, in retirement after years of teaching theology at [...]
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Atheist, racist, bigot, sexist: The truth about the demonic Karl Marx

By Ines Angeli Murzaku on Sep 02, 2020 01:11 am
In 1999, Harvard University Press published The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, revealing a “tragedy of planetary dimensions.” It documented the untold atrocities of communism and all the people whose lives and livelihood [...]
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Why intention is not everything

By Nicholas Senz on Sep 01, 2020 05:15 pm
The story only broke a few days ago, but it is already familiar to many: a priest had recently watched a video of his baptism and was surprised by what he saw. The Vatican in [...]
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Can horror give hope in a horrifying world?

By Daniel Kempton on Aug 31, 2020 10:42 pm
The anxiety and fear that many are experiencing in these days of pandemic and urban rioting have emerged from a sense that things are falling apart. New data released by Mental Health America reveal that [...]
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Vocation and Singlehood

By John Paul Meenan on Aug 31, 2020 04:50 pm
Mary Cuff’s recent Crisis article premising that the single life is not a vocation, has left many singles rather nonplussed. The following words are meant to offer some hope and consolation to those who, for [...]
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Dethroning Christ? The Error at the Root of the Viganò Controversy (Part 2)

By Dr. Douglas Farrow on Aug 30, 2020 12:46 pm
The doctrine behind the Jihad The Viganò controversy that we dissected in Part I requires a further explanation, a deeper level of explanation. The archbishop himself has pointed to it, by appealing in self-defense to [...]
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