Catholicism

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Of Rome and Runnymede

Paul V. Mankowski

Curious. Why should the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe all see fit to carry the story of the…

“I Am the Very Model of a Modern Vicar-P’rochial”

Mike Aquilina

V-P:I am the very model of a modern Vicar-P’rochial. I’ve schooling theological, from Curran to Ezekial. I…

History According to the Village Atheist

James Turner

The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century…

Saints as Givers, Saints as Guides

James Tunstead Burtchaell

Making Saints: How the Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn’t and Why by kenneth l.…

The Death of Religious Higher Education

The Editors

From time to time, a set of concerns reaches something like a critical mass. Familiar discontents vaguely…

The New Lapsed

Peter J. Leithart

In the aftermath of the victory over Communist domination of Eastern Europe, previously hidden divisions are surfacing…

“Linguistic Injustice”: An Exchange

James F. White and James T. Burtchaell

The University of Notre Dame To: My Colleagues in the Department of TheologyFrom: James F. White On…

Authority in the Church: Excavations Among the Ruins

Philip Turner

Authority is an issue that occupies a central place in current ecumenical discussion among the churches and…

The Lives of the Saints and the Pursuit of Virtue

Robert Louis Wilken

Of the several paths that lead to virtue, the broadest and the most promising is the way…

The Christian West?

Wolfhart Pannenberg and Richard John Neuhaus

Richard John Neuhaus: 1992 is scheduled to he a very big year for moving toward European unity.…

Telling the American Catholic Story

George Weigel

Catholics in America have rarely taken the study of their history seriously. My own educational circumstances, which…

The Educational Vise

Quentin L. Quade

The widely noted appearance of John Chubb and Terry Moe’s Politics, Markets & America’s Schools reminds us…

The Real John Courtney Murray

Keith L. Pavlischek

The Search for an American Public Theology: The Contribution of John Courtney Murray by robert w. mcelroy…

The Social History of American Religion

Martin E. Marty

Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People by jon butler harvard university press, 360…

The Many Causes of Environmentalism

Richard John Neuhaus

The Woodstock Center at Georgetown University is where some distinguished Jesuits, and some less distinguished Jesuits, fiddle…