Three ecclesial structures inherited from the Council of Trent are still with us today, and must be changed if the church is to be meaningfully reformed
While the church certainly needs a new, robust political theology of the common good, it’s delusional to look for the solution in premodern Christendom
David Lodge’s 1980 novel ‘How Far Can You Go?’ uses humor to articulate lay Catholics’ struggle to reconcile a rule-oriented church with an adult faith
