Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Catholics, Protestants, and Contraception
It has become a commonplace that religious controversy today occurs more often across church boundaries than between…
Popes for All Seasons
God’s Representatives: The Eight Twentieth-century Popes by james bentleyconstable. 200 pages, £16.95 . Saints and Sinners: A History…
Revolutionary of the Heart
Since John Cardinal O’Connor’s announcement at his Sunday Mass on November 9, 1997 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
John Paul II on the American Experiment
In receiving the credentials of the Honorable Lindy Boggs as Ambassador to the Holy See on December…
Memoirs of a Catholic Boyhood
The muddy Illinois River ranks among the least distinguished of the Mississippi’s tributaries, a brown expanse of…
Augustine’s World and Ours
One of the most striking differences between constitutional democracies and tyrannies in our time pertains to certain…
Statecraft and Stagecraft
American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most Powerful Church by Charles R. Morris. Times…
I Do?
To understand why the United States has the highest divorce rate in the world, go to some…
The Denomination Called Catholic
By now, nearly everyone has heard the statistics. From the end of Vatican II in 1965 to…
Robert Graham, S.J.
On February 10, 1997, Father Robert Graham, S.J., an indefatigable defender of Pope Pius XII against posthumous…
Pope 007?
His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time by carl bernstein and marco…
In Defense of Sectarian Catholicity
Elsewhere in this issue ( “The Unhappy Fate of Optional Orthodoxy,” Public Square ) my colleague Richard…
The Politics of Baptism
In the second chapter of his letter to the Galatians, Paul recounts how on a visit to…
That They May Be One
The Public Square It was, if I recall, Evelyn Waugh who wrote about a Catholic gentleman whose…
Preaching As Though We Had Enemies
I am just postmodern enough not to trust “postmodern” as a description of our times, for it…
