Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Orthodox Origen
Origen: On First Principlesedited and translated by john behroxford, 800 pages, $200 In its eleventh canon, the…
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
The Virtue of Nationalismby yoram hazonybasic books, 304 pages, $18.99 In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks,…
T. S. Eliot, Populist
What defines the essence of populism? What is it for, and what is it against? T. S.…
Heterodox Woman
The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Cultureby heather mac…
Letter to an Aspiring Doctor
You tell me you are thinking, my dear Stephen, of medicine as a career, but you wonder…
Letters
Death Penalty Sad to say, but as surely as night follows day, when Pope Francis speaks on…
Angels of Advent
Angels appear at critical moments in the Hebrew Bible. The angel of Yahweh helps Hagar as she…
Lord, You Know It All
In the spring of 1908, an Irish priest was walking through the slums of Great Yarmouth in…
Cleansed and Conformed to God’s Will
Father, We Thank Thee, Who Hast Planted” has long been one of my favorite hymns. Its tune,…
Confessions of a Catholic Whistleblower
In late July, I began giving internal diocesan documents to an investigative reporter in my hometown of…
Vatican Autocracy and the U.S. Bishops
As the U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore on the weekend of November 10–11, it seemed certain that,…
Hour of the Wolf
Earlier this year I edited an anthology, Christ’s Body, Christ’s Wounds: Staying Catholic When You’ve Been Hurt…
Superheroes and Saints
Face front, true believers. Last week the world lost one of the few household names among the…
Synodality Upended
Last Monday, as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops gathered for the 2018 General Assembly, the Holy…
The Vatican Intervention in Baltimore
By quashing the American Catholic bishops’ bid for an independent investigation into the burgeoning sex-abuse scandal, the…
