Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Pious Scholar
“I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance…
The Fast and Slow Growth
Having made my first promises in 2002 (after three years of dallying), next year I will celebrate…
Whooshing Through Life
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by hubert dreyfus…
While We’re At It
• Remember the alliance of atheists who offered to take care of your pets in the event…
A Tribute to Cardinal John O’Connor (1920–2000)
Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Cardinal John O’Connor, whom Richard John Neuhaus called…
Advent and the Pregnancy Narratives—a Season of Joyful Expectation
I fear I may have missed some of the beauty of Advent. I missed the lessons from…
There’s Something About Bloody Mary
Mary I, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon’s only surviving child, was the first Queen Regnant of…
Reformation Day
It was around two o’clock in the afternoon on the eve of the Day of All Saints,…
The Book of Judges
Law and Judicial Duty by Philip Hamburger Harvard, 686 pages, $49.95 Recent events have brought the ordinarily…
An Execration for an Unfaithful Husband
O may the girlfriend of your nightmares stalk you on the Internet, and “need to talk,” and…
Charity and Unity
When the pope’s new encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, appeared this summer, its ambitious scope and curious composition left…
Empathy & Apathy
During the presidential campaign Barack Obama declared, with no inadvertence, that among the furnishings of mind he…
That Nothing May Be Lost
This spring I was out of the country for a week. Attending Mass shortly after my return,…
The Springtime of John Paul II
In his celebrated Christian allegory The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , C.S. Lewis represents evil’s…
Richard and the Jews
In his youth in rural Ontario and rural Texas, Richard John Neuhaus had little or no contact…
