Other Reform Ideas

Many other Catholic apostolates want to see authentic teaching and reform as well. Here are some of the best essays we’ve found.

Maintaining Doctrinal Orthodoxy and Pastoral Sensitivity

E. Christian Brugger: The Cardinal’s Lament: A Reply to His Reply

Thomas Berg: Does the Catholic Church Need a New ‘Framework’ for Sexual Sin? This Moral Theologian Says No

Carl Olson: On Cardinal Cupich’s problematic, convenient conscience

Larry Chap: Cardinal Cupich and the Hermeneutics of the Abyss

Synodality

Michael Hanby: Synodality and the Spirit of Truth

Bishop Robert Barron: Three Cautions in Regard to Synodality

Mark Regnerus: Census Fidei? Methodological Missteps Are Undermining the Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality

Nicholas Healy, Jr.: The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality

Randall Smith: The Proper Sense of the ‘Sensus Fidelium’

The German Synodal Way

Bishop Donald Hying: Statement on the ‘Synodal Way’ process from bishops in Germany

Jayd Henricks: An American perspective on the situation of the Church in Germany

The Liturgy

Larry Chapp: Wanted: Open, Honest Dialogue on the Liturgy