Catholicism

In the mid-1980s, my wife and I were invited to a baptism and to the post-christening reception…

How can the success or failure of the Vatican “abuse summit,” which concluded yesterday, be measured? A…

At the beginning of February, a month in which an intense, global media spotlight has been focused…

“Grant, we pray, almighty God, that no tempests may disturb us, for you have set us fast…

Is the Catholic Church a cage? The language of a recent New York Times article on the…

Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we may so follow the teaching and example of the Bishop…

Despite Pope Francis’s lecture on the subject at Synod-2015, and notwithstanding the passages on it in Synod-2018’s…

Thanks in part to the hyperventilating language of last year’s Pennsylvania grand jury report (which followed hard…

The whole course of Christianity from the first … is but one series of troubles and disorders.…

For almost three decades the Catholic left has turned intellectual somersaults arguing that John Paul II didn’t…

A number of America’s Catholic bishops care more about the Church’s public image than about the welfare…

Peter Steinfels’s long career in journalism included years of service as editor of Commonweal (from which perch…

Calls for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s excommunication have echoed across Catholic social media ever since he signed into…

What in the world is wrong with our leaders? This is a question twenty-first-century Americans must continually…

There was plenty to get angry about in the disgraceful behavior of media figures and celebrities in…