Catholicism
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What Conclave Yearns For
The pope is dead. Sede vacante. From the round earth’s imagined corners come the 120 cardinal-electors, the progressive…
Pope Francis and the Catholic Sensitivity to Jews
How should Catholics speak about Jews in general, and Israel in particular? That question was raised anew…
Pope Francis and Catholic Sensitivity to Jews
How should Catholics speak about Jews in general, and Israel in particular? That question was raised anew…
“Luce,” Mascot of Dumbed-Down Catholicism
During his years as professor of fundamental theology at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, Salvatore “Rino” Fisichella was…
Can the Ignatius Study Bible Save Biblical Studies?
The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible—a Bible decades in the making, under the editorship of Steubenville scholars Scott…
Disintegrating England
The English Soul:Faith of a Nationby peter ackroydreaktion books, 416 pages, $30 Peter Ackroyd is a major…
The Seven Sins Against the Holy Spirit: A Synodal Tragedy
Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches” (Rev.…
A Great Christian Witness, Too Little Known in the West
The Venerable Andrey Sheptytsky, who died eighty years ago on November 1, 1944, was one of twentieth-century…
The Fall of Archbishop Welby
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, resigned on Tuesday after an investigation found he’d mishandled the John Smyth…
Why Catholics Voted for Trump
As Democrats and others assess the fallout from last week’s red bombshell, they’re looking at surprises in…
What Catholics Should Think About Climate Change
Climate change poses risks to people throughout the world. Christians have a moral duty to mitigate those…
Roses, Chocolate, and Ambiguity
I staffed a bishop-delegate in Rome at the 2015 Synod on the Family. Asked, at the time,…
The Continuing Scandal of the Vatican’s China Policy
In the annals of historical boorishness, it would be hard to find something more egregious than the…
What Catholics Should Think About Climate
Climate change poses risks to people throughout the world. Christians have a moral duty to mitigate those…
Reclaiming Our Catholic Schools
An alarming number of children from Catholic families lose their faith during elementary and secondary school. By…
