Publication: Phil Lawler Substack

[NOTE: The draft letter below was not written by, or for, any bishop. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there is no copyright on this post, and ...

The 'synodal process' goes on and on. To what end? The Synod on Synodality, which Pope Francis loosed on the world back in 2021, is still going strong— even if, ...

Responding to my analysis of confrontation between Pentagon officials and Cardinal Pierre, @MarkSimonHK wrote on X that “Lawler is more open than I am about the role of @Pontifex…” (This ...

The University of Notre Dame, the best known Catholic institution of higher learning in the country, is embroiled in questions about its Catholic identity. What surprises me about those questions ...

Help is not on the way. Yesterday, in a cautious optimistic post about this week’s meeting of the College of Cardinals, I observed that “it is difficult to imagine how ...

Last week I wrote that Catholics should not have been surprised (although they might well have been scandalized) by the highly publicized meeting between Pope Leo and Father James Martin, ...

The following quotations speak for themselves. They were collected and collated by a Jesuit friend, now deceased (my faithful readers can probably guess…), who thought they should be made public ...