Francis's teaching on capital punishment represents a discontinuity in the life of the Church. But one that highlights a deeper continuity.

Let's establish in the United States a standing, monastic seminary for the formation of prelates. 

The present moment, both for the Church and for humanity, is one that we should entrust a bit more to "jesuitical" brilliance.

Someone who wants everything to be clear and sure presumes to control God’s transcendence.

Stifling Pope Benedict's voice, who is perhaps the moral theologian par excellence, endangers not only the clarity of the moral message of the Church, but the formation of all Christian consciences.

For serious Catholic thinkers, discerning continuity where it can be found is a distinctive feature of Christian intellectualism.

Christian conscience is the active acceptance of the fruits of true freedom, formed by careful reflection, and deployed in every instance of mundane life.

The personal decision of the Holy Father was a final public instruction on the practical, sometimes uncomfortable character of deep faith expected for each and every Christian.