I returned just a few days ago from the second session of the Synod on Synodality in Rome, and I will confess to feeling a tad exhausted. As I've mentioned before, the synod is a full four weeks l ...

This is part of a running series of essays by Iskander Rehman, entitled “Applied History,” which seeks, through the study of the history of ...

All of them help us to understand when we are. The first tool is Augustine’s notion of the saeculum. Unlike our use of the word secular, which we tend to associate with space (as in the “secular ...