With contributions by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke - Bishop Athanasius Schneider - Phillip Campbell - Stuart Chessman - Charles A. Coulombe - Roberto de Mattei - Edward Feser - Timothy S. Flanders - R mi Fontaine - A Friar of the Order of Preachers - Matt Gaspers - Jeremy Holmes - John P. Joy - Robert W. Keim - John Lamont - Sebastian Morello - Martin Mosebach - Clemens Victor Oldendorf - Thomas Pink - Enrico Roccagiachini - Eric Sammons - Joseph Shaw - Henry Sire - Thomas Sternberg - Darrick Taylor - Jos A. Ureta It is not possible to understand the crisis in the modern Catholic Church, much less see how it might be overcome, without a critical understanding of the ecclesial current known as ultramontanism. Originating with nineteenth-century conservatives rallying to the anti-Liberalism of Pius IX, it developed over time into a hyperpapalism that weakened subsidiarity, stifled local custom, and dismantled tradition, until with Pope Francis it has morphed into a veritable engine of
