Catholicism
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An All-Too-Moveable Feast
We American Catholics are now in the post-Easter Season of the Bollixed Holy Days. One of them—occurring…
Cheap Joy
On Holy Wednesday this year, I attended a local Catholic book club meeting on The Book of…
Making a Diverse College of Cardinals Work
With the exception of the two consistories held by Pope John XXIII in 1958 and 1959, every…
Baseball and Synod 2018
I trust it won’t cause heartburn among the editors of Commonweal if I confess to having cheered…
A Diagnosis of Moralosis
An odd thing happened in Ireland on Easter Sunday. A politician, a senator who had been chairperson of…
Who May Receive Communion?
This is the fifth in a series of reflections by Cardinal Müller on questions of present importance…
From the Heart of a Young Father
Bishops get a lot of unsolicited mail from strangers, some of it pleasant, some of it much…
What Would Have Stopped Martin Luther
In the popular telling of Martin Luther’s story, nothing could have stopped the Protestant reformer from challenging…
An Ambiguous Exhortation
Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation, fittingly published in April, is full of springtime hope. It speaks candidly to…
A Tradition Unlike Any Other
If you tune in to CBS at 2 p.m. on the second Sunday of April, you will…
Hell Yes
Last week, the Drudge Report cited an interview with Pope Francis in tabloid all-caps: POPE DECLARES NO…
Conscience of a Kennedy
A cruel April is at hand for the memory of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Tomorrow…
Air Turbulence and the Resurrection
If there’s anything Catholics in the United States should have learned over the past two decades, it’s…
The Heroism of Arnaud Beltrame
On March 23 in the French town of Trèbes, an ISIS attacker entered a supermarket, killed two…
What Young Catholics Want
Several French dioceses, seeking to promote their 2018 fundraising drive, had a few young Catholics take a…
