Catholicism

One hundred years ago today, at the age of forty-two, Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset entered the Catholic…

Overhyped, Overmanaged, Underwhelming—and Providentially Heartening by George Weigel In a 1989 article, future cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J.,…

Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer recently angered Catholics with a video sketch promoting the CHIPS Act. In the video, she…

ROME—Pizza in the Eternal City tends to exemplify a proposition I have long defended: What crossed the…

The coronation of King Charles III made for great television: horsemen in breastplates and plumes; a bejeweled…

The Sound of Silence: The Life and Canceling of a Heroic Jesuit Priestby karen hallcrisis, 240 pages,…

Today, the Latin Rite Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical feast of Pope St. John Paul II. One…

Is “Shared Responsibility” the Answer? It Depends. by George Weigel Parish priests were in very short supply…

On October 20, 1994, something unprecedented in the modern history of the papacy took place: The reigning…

Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 3: On God, Trinity, Creation, and Christ, by Thomas Joseph White, O.P.,…

In 1827 or thereabouts, Felix Mendelssohn attended G. W. F. Hegel’s lectures on aesthetics at the University…

Special Newman Mini-Edition As Synod-2024 completes its second week under the relentless pressures imposed by the Synod…

Imagine that, in 1939, there were synods of the sort meeting now. Imagine further that Synod-1939 had…

Synod-2024’s Instrumentum Laboris expresses considerable concern about the roles of women in the Catholic Church of the…

Special Diaconate Issue The Synod’s October 2 afternoon working session was devoted to a lengthy series of…