Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Pope Leo, Catholic Boomer?
Like Kremlinologists during the Cold War, American Catholics are searching for clues to the character of their…
Creating U.S. Catholicism
In 1928, Undersecretary of State William R. Castle Jr. wrote about “by far the most important Roman…
Petrocentrism: A Problem?
One hundred fifty-five years ago, when the freshly minted Kingdom of Italy conquered the rump of the…
Bishop Martin Is Out of Touch
When Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte drafted sweeping restrictions on traditional liturgical practices—including Latin,…
A Catholic Fix for American Higher Education?
Why are so many American colleges and universities in crisis? Drew Gilpin Faust, an accomplished Civil War…
Pope Leo XIII and Emperor Wilhelm II
The inauguration of the new pope, held on the 105th birthday of St. John Paul II, was…
Sainthood through Marriage
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Caitrin Bennett joins in…
A Pope for the AI Era
In choosing the name Leo XIV, our new Holy Father has set himself an urgent task: to…
Rome’s Mario Cuomo Is Gone
The Vatican announced May 19 that Baldassare Cardinal Reina would become the grand chancellor of the John…
The Popecast
The editors discuss the first days of the pontificate of Leo XIV, the first American pope. Then,…
Pope Francis’s Muddled Mercy
Pope Francis began a Jubilee of Mercy in 2015, and now, in the aftermath of his death,…
David Tracy’s Theological Missteps
The Catholic Church in the United States has lost a great theologian with the recent death of…
The Two Leos
Pope Leo XIV has explained that his choice of regnal name is an homage to Pope Leo…
Liberal Integralists
Eight years ago, Andrew Willard Jones’s Before Church and State was described in these pages as “the…
Hopes for a New Pontificate
Within a few hours of the election of Pope Leo XIV and his masterful presentation of himself…
