Brad Miner


The Ruinous Rhetoric of ‘Synodal Interpretation’

Long, long ago, on a planet far, far away, I organized a conference on religion and the public square in…

Having a Good/Bad Lent

There are many ways of being a pilgrim, only one of which is to go physically to some special –…

The Synodal Way’s Great Expectations

The bishops of Europe – together with dozens of clerical and lay participants – met in Prague last week as…

Missing: ‘Vatican Girl’ on Netflix

began watching Vatican Girl, the Netflix documentary about the 1983 disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, when it was released last year….

Tolle, Lege

For a year and more, I’ve been trying to learn Biblical Hebrew. Studying Hebrew is not like learning French or…

Everything Begins in Mysticism

This month marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of a great modern Catholic genius. Like many such geniuses, he…

Life, By the Numbers, Revisited

As a thought experiment, let’s assume something I would never accuse TCT readers of being: that you are materialist and utilitarian. You…

Dead Men Do Tell Tales

dway through the first volume (2019) of his Prison Journal, Australian Cardinal George Pell records that: “Every type of Catholic…

What Child Is This?

s not the season for arguments, but rather for warmth, generosity, family, fellowship, even a little indulgence of what at…

Halo of the Son: Tintoretto’s Last ‘Last Supper’

In a recent column about Mary Magdalene, I wrote that my favorite portrait of the great saint was by Domenico…