Catholicism
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Is Pope Francis a Liberal Protestant?
Is the pope Catholic?” For at least a century, this was the way we Anglicans joked about…
As the Bard Might Say . . .
Four centuries after his death, Shakespeare remains a peerless playwright because of his remarkable insight into the…
Pope Francis’s Reset Button
The past two years have seen endless conflict over Pope Francis’s 2016 post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Amoris laetitia.…
An Exercise in Thoughtless “Theology”
In July, Antonio Spadaro, S.J., editor of La Civiltà Cattolica, and Marcelo Figueroa, a Presbyterian pastor and editor…
“You Have to Decide.”
In writing Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II, one of my secondary…
The Principled Ambivalence of Pope Francis
Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium is rightly considered the inaugural address of his pontificate. In it,…
Letters
Burning Bridges I would like to thank First Things for the kind invitation to respond to Fr.…
A Time of Crisis
A crisis of doctrine, such as the one through which the Catholic Church is now passing, has…
The Church in Afghanistan
Fr. Giovanni Scalese is a Barnabite priest and the ecclesiastical superior of the Roman Catholic Mission of…
The Pope’s Five-Year Plan
In their famous final meeting, Pope Francis told Cardinal Gerhard Müller that he wanted to limit the…
The War Against Cardinal Sarah
Now that Cardinal Gerhard Müller has been removed from his post at the Vatican, the main target…
Whose Bourgeois Morality?
In the latest round of debate over Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on marriage and the…
The Still-Acceptable Prejudice
On October 5, Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett barely—just barely—won the approval of the Senate…
We Found Our Joy in Latin
Edwin Mary Akaedu walks with a cane in one hand and a rosary in the other as…
Pope Francis on the Development of Doctrine
On October 11, Pope Francis addressed a conference sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of…
