Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Denying Transcendence
Near the beginning of his Life of St. Macrina, Gregory of Nyssa hesitates over a seemingly self-evident…
It’s Howdy Doody Time!
Three or four times each month, Father X (as I’ll call him here) celebrates the noontime daily…
Prejudice and the Blaine Amendments
During the coming weeks, the Supreme Court will hand down its decision in Trinity Lutheran of Columbia,…
The Sporting Spirit
A few years ago, I received from a high-ranking prelate a reply to an article published by…
The Civil Marriage Business
In his 2015 Erasmus Lecture, Archbishop Charles Chaput called on America’s bishops to reconsider the Church’s role…
Waiting for Vatican Reform
Pope Francis raised great expectations when, on April 13, 2013, one month after being elected to Peter’s…
Pope Francis’s Dichotomies
The Roots of Pope Francis’s Social and Political Thought:From Argentina to the Vaticanthomas r. rourkerowman and littlefield,…
Watching George Pell
Cardinal George Pell, emeritus Archbishop of Sydney and now resident in Rome, is Australia’s most senior prelate.…
Interreligious Dialogue with Edge and Purpose
The evening of September 12, 2006, was, in a word, memorable. My wife and I were having…
Keep Christianity Weird
Destroyer of the Godsby larry hurtadobaylor, 304 pages, $19.95 Three professors at a prestigious divinity school recently…
Catholic Lite and Europe’s Demographic Suicide
Ten years ago, after my meditation on Europe, The Cube and the Cathedral, had appeared in several…
Burying Benedict
Though Benedict is still living, Francis is trying to bury him. Upon his election in 2013, Francis…
The Challenge of Fatima
If there were any doubts about the enduring power of Fatima, Pope Francis has put them to…
Tracing Church History through Old Newspapers
There is a saying, variously attributed, that journalism is the first rough draft of history. There is…
A Hillarian Lesson for Church Leaders
Perhaps it was being “overcome with Paschal joy” (as the Prefaces for Easter put it). Maybe it…
