Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Requiem for a Parish
It was built by Polish immigrants—workers in the steel mill and the glass factory that sat along…
Protestant-Catholic-Jew, Then and Now
In the winter of 1954, Will Herberg, the best untrained sociologist in America, turned his attention to…
SB: 12.23.05 One often hears…
One often hears it said that modern science has adopted a methodology that takes no account of…
RJN: 11.24.05 Thanksgiving Day…
Thanksgiving Day. The little community of which I’m part doesn’t have a Thanksgiving dinner. We disperse to…
RJN: 11.23.05 “In Strong Terms…
“In Strong Terms, Rome Is to Ban Gays as Priests.” That’s the front page headline in today’s…
JB: 11.09.05 You gotta love…
You gotta love this kind of stuff , Representative Sherrod Brown writing to Senator Mike DeWine last…
John Keegan, the eminent
John Keegan, the eminent historian of warfare, writes that the trial of Saddam Hussein poses difficult questions…
The Bishops in Council
Twenty-five years ago this month, Pope John Paul II made his first pastoral visit to the United…
Chaplain of Shadows
Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz Translated by the author and Robert Hass Ecco. 102 pp. $23.95 Second…
Christ and Casserole
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 247 pp. $23. Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, published in 1981,…
Maritain’s True Humanism
In the course of his long life, French philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) adopted a series of different…
Just War, As It Was and Is
The just war tradition came into being during the Middle Ages as a way of thinking about…
The Love of Saint Thérèse
The Pope leaned toward her, so that “their faces nearly touched,” and Thérèse hurriedly whispered her desire…
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
Few, if any, other theologians could have written The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian…
Catholicism as the Other
Martin Scorsese’s recent film The Gangs of New York takes us back to a time when religion,…
