The pope as sportswriter
Mary Ellen Kelly reports on some remarks of then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, nee Pope Benedict XVI, on the 1985 World Cup: “The fascination with soccer,” he wrote, “lies essentially in that it forces...
View ArticleThe Antichrist, revisited
You have GOT to read Mollie Hemingway’s column in the Wall Street Journal, which should definitively put to rest the media’s shocked discovery that Lutherans believe that the papacy is the antichrist....
View ArticleThe Pope on Luther
Thanks to Paul McCain, who posted a transcript of Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks that he gave at the Augustinian cloister in Erfurt, which was where Luther served as a monk. You should read the whole...
View ArticleThe pope resigns
The pope has surprised the world by announcing his resignation. From BBC: Pope Benedict XVI is to resign at the end of this month after nearly eight years as the head of the Catholic Church, saying he...
View ArticleThere is no pope
Pope Benedict’s resignation goes into effect today. So, until the cardinals get together to elect a new one, there is no pope in office. Canon law used to require a conclave to meet within 20 days of...
View ArticlePope resigned to purge “the filth”?
John Cornwell, a recognized Catholic journalist, says that the real reason the pope is resigning is because in doing so the whole Curia–the Vatican bureaucracy that is reportedly rife with financial...
View ArticleNew pope must pledge to serve until death?
The cardinals don’t seem to approve of Pope Benedict’s resignation and reportedly will ask the next pope to promise not to pull that again. British journalist John Follain reports: CARDINALS plan to...
View Article“The long march through the institutions”
In the course of an article about the Roman Catholic organization Communion and Liberation, a group with which the current Pope Francis was affiliated, one that offered a more orthodox alternative to...
View ArticlePope Benedict quit “because God told me to”
More evidence of Luther’s point about Roman Catholics and Protestant “enthusiasts” being basically the same in thinking God speaks to them directly and experientially, apart from His Word: “God told me...
View ArticleAttraction, not argument
Michael Brendan Dougherty discusses the doom and gloom many Christians feel about the church’s prospects in contemporary culture. He disagrees that things are that bad and says that there are two ways...
View ArticleThe varieties of irrationalism
In September 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave a speech at the University of Regensburg, which earned him much criticism for dissing Islam. But what the speech was about was the importance of a proper use...
View ArticleBenevolence vs. Fundamentalism
We blogged about Dan Hitchens’ article on politicians who parade their Catholic identity while also repudiating Catholic beliefs. In that piece, the nephew of the late “new atheist” Christopher...
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