Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Courageous Honesty of Peter Steinfels
Peter Steinfels’s long career in journalism included years of service as editor of Commonweal (from which perch…
Excommunicate Cuomo
Calls for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s excommunication have echoed across Catholic social media ever since he signed into…
Bishop Bell Vindicated
I had not thought that victory in a good cause after a long campaign would make me…
Our Therapeutic Bishops
What in the world is wrong with our leaders? This is a question twenty-first-century Americans must continually…
Covington Catholic and Our Inferiority Complex
There was plenty to get angry about in the disgraceful behavior of media figures and celebrities in…
Squandering Moral Capital
The morality of tyrannicide is not much discussed in today’s kinder, gentler Catholic Church. Yet that difficult…
What’s Missing From the March for Life
I attended the March for Life last week but saw nothing of the episode that seems to…
Sin Aboundeth
The story of offshore finance is a familiar one. Individuals or companies want to avoid taxes, fines,…
Why I Assigned The Kingdom
Last week, a controversy erupted over a book I assigned in a five-student advanced literature seminar at…
The World Moore Made
G. E. Moore is hardly a household name these days, but in early twentieth-century Cambridge his students…
More Trouble for the Little Sisters
For nine years Democratic officials have attempted to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to provide…
Nothing About Us Without Us
The slogan “Nothing about us without us” was used by Solidarity in the 1980s in Poland, borrowing…
Richard John Neuhaus, Teacher
This essay was originally delivered on January 8, 2019, as a homily for the Richard John Neuhaus…
Remembering Robert Spaemann
Robert Spaemann, who passed away on December 10, 2018, at age 91, was a crucial voice among…
A Dismal Tradition
Readers of First Things will already know of the recent senatorial attacks on judicial nominees for their…
