The National Security Statement does not address domestic policy. But the blunt statements about Europe’s civilizational malaise and misguided immigration policies apply to the United States as well.
From the January issue: Evangelicals are roughly one-quarter of the American population. When a group so large fails to contribute its share of leaders, we should expect a leadership deficiency in society.
Marian devotion is particular, associating Mary’s presence with various places, conditions, or states of life. Jesus works on the largest imaginable scale; Mary works beside me.
Questions about Vatican II and about liturgical changes in its wake are first and foremost theological questions, not pastoral or liturgical. Because they relate to continuity and tradition, they are questions about revelation, and therefore God.