It did not take long for this shiny new pontificate to lose its lustre. And its credibility. The spectacle of Pope Leo granting solemn blessing to a block of gl It did not take long for this new pontificate to lose its luster.| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
We woke up last Thursday in a different country from the one we knew the morning before. A line had been crossed, one that we hardly realized was there. And if| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
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“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” If George Orwell had seen ahead to today’s scramble to make black —but not white —a proper no| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
Graphic design is a silent but powerful language. Instantantly recognized, a single graphic serves as a branding device.| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
Meet Giovanni Battista Bugatti, official executioner for the Papal States from 1796 until he retired in 1864.| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
{{ post.auto_description } Addressing the cardinals, Pope Leo pledged himself to the works & aims of Vatican II.| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
Leo XIV's sermon on Pentecost Sunday took its keynote from Benedict XVI. On Pentecost, 2005, Benedict proclaimed: "The Spirit opens borders... She [the Church]| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
Celebrity worship creates mirages. Media attention to the coronation of Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV is not all that it seems. The 24-7 news feed degr| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
“Is theology poetry?” C. S. Lewis asked the question in a 1944 talk to an Oxford debating society called the “Socratic Club.” Nearly two decades later it became the title of one essay published in a collection: They Asked For A Paper (1962). Does Christian Theology owe its attraction to its power of arousing and satisfying our imaginations? are those who believe it mistaking aesthetic enjoyment for intellectual assent, or assenting because they enjoy? . . . . if Theology is Poetry, it...| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
For sedevacantists, it is Katie bar the door at the next conclave. A stubborn refrain from a subset of Catholic traditionalists accompanied the press’s bedside vigil during Pope Francis’s hospitalization. The narrative was elementary: Francis is in error. He has signaled heretical attitudes. Moreover, the Saint Gallen Gang short-circuited divine guidance by lobbying the 2013 conclave for Francis’s benefit. Thus, he is not really the pope. The Chair of Peter stands empty. It follows, the...| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
