Catholicism

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Development, or Corruption?

Gerhard Cardinal Müller

This is the third in a series of reflections by Cardinal Müller on questions of present importance…

The Decipherment of Cupich

Basilides Melchischyros

Having recently returned to Utopia from a scholarly visit to Cambridge (England), Basilides Melchischyros, of the Academia…

Taking Leave

P. J. Smith

Learning To Take Leave, Pope Francis’s new apostolic letter in the form of a motu proprio, addresses…

Pork Roll, Lent, and Catholic Identity

George Weigel

A few weeks before Ash Wednesday, an Associated Press squib with Lenten implications appeared in the Washington…

Death and Dappled Hope

Leah Libresco Sargeant

Promise Me, Dad:A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purposeby joe bidenflatiron books, 272 pages, $27 Many politicians’…

Preaching vs. Practice

Philip Lawler

For Pope Francis, a long honeymoon has ended. For nearly five years since his election in March…

For Love of God and of Us

R. J. Matava

February 1, 2018 marked the passing of Germain Gabriel Grisez, a man of the Church and one…

The Vatican’s China Whitewash

Daniel Mark

Like many others, I received with skepticism the news of a possible deal to resolve the long-standing…

Called to Eucharist

Peter J. Leithart

Over the centuries, the theology and practice of the Eucharist have been distorted in many ways. One…

Benedict in Silence

P. J. Smith

As we approach the fifth anniversary of Benedict XVI’s abdication and Francis’s election, we face a strange…

The Bridge That George Lindbeck Built

C. C. Pecknold

As a college student studying theology in the 1990s, I was inspired by many great theologians of…

The Catholic Church Doesn’t Do “Paradigm Shifts”

George Weigel

Ever since Thomas Kuhn popularized it with his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the notion…

The Letter American Bishops Should Write

Francis X. Maier

Here’s a simple question for future historians: How is it that the same Catholic Church in Germany,…

I Know How to Be Abased and I Know How to Abound

Luma Simms

I was more ashamed of my Goodwill clothes than of not speaking English when I first came…

Pope Francis Regrets

P. J. Smith

News outlets around the world have reported that Pope Francis, at the end of his apostolic voyage…