Columnist: Carlos Balén
“Rome Has Spoken, Logic Is Finished”
There is a passage from Book Gamma of the Metaphysics that one always rereads with a rather uncharitable smile. Aristotle, weary of those who denied the principle of non-contradiction, decrees ...
The Lay Election Francis Lost EVERY YEAR of His Pontificate
There is a vote that the Church holds every year in every parish on the planet—universal, voluntary, anonymous and immune to polling, and for that very reason impossible to rig: ...
The Distance Between the Pulpit and Reality is Starting to Become Obscene
Between the comfortable restaurant, where bishops eat until they are stuffed, and the robbed perfumery of the victim of the unaccompanied foreign minors, there are increasingly more meters. A friend ...
Is This The Vatican’s Attempt At Humor?
There are appointments that explain on their own the concept of “unity” that Rome handles. Leo XIV has decided to entrust the dialogue with the Society of Saint Pius X ...
Thirty Years Buying Time: When Rome Bet That the Problem Would Die on Its Own
It’s best to stop with the pious pretenses. What has happened with the Society of Saint Pius X is not an accident, nor a sudden outburst, nor a “flight forward” ...