For a bishops’ commission to issue a text calling for a “differentiated” approach to Catholic teaching—in which the settled truths of Catholic faith are regarded as one option on a menu of possibilities—is bizarre.
On December 4, a “Study Commission on the Female Diaconate” set up by Pope Francis in 2020 published its conclusion that women could not be ordained as deacons.
I understand why the bishops tiptoe around the issue: The Church has been a cheerleader of the EU project for decades; to change course would be to admit that it has failed.
From the January issue: To translate is not to domesticate the unknown in known terms. It is to renounce the certainty that I am the knowing insider while everyone else is outside.
The governor leaves those most vulnerable, at life’s beginning and end, without the legal protections that their God-given dignity demands. Kathy Hochul has made New York a colder, crueler, and more callous state.
