Theology
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The View from Here Is Glory
This Our Exile by joshua hren angelico press, 142 pages, $18 What is “Catholic fiction”? Must it…
The Chilean Bishops Crisis
With the mass resignation of 34 Chilean bishops, we have reached the decisive moment of the Francis…
If Only Francis Were Luther!
With the advent of Wim Wenders’s Pope Francis documentary in theaters, the policies of the current pontiff…
The Welby Pontificate
As an Anglican reading Ross Douthat’s To Change the Church, I could not help but notice how…
The Polyglot Politics of Pentecost
At the end of Deuteronomy (ch. 28), Moses describes the blessings Israel will enjoy if she keeps…
The Met’s Defensible Decadence
I guess I’m an outlier among conservative Catholics—but I loved this year’s Met Gala, the $30,000-a-head annual…
Capitalism vs. Tradition in Italy
Last year, Valeria Ferrara chained herself to the front of a Calvin Klein outlet store in Castel…
The Holy See, China, and Evangelization
In a recent interview, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, suggested that certain…
Pope Paul Said No
In September 1988, just five months before his death, Fr. John Ford, SJ revealed a conversation he had had…
Andy Stanley’s Modern Marcionism
Walk into one of the old Episcopal churches on the East Coast, and once your eye has…
Versions of Paul
The mostly Baptist congregations in which I grew up included only a handful of academically trained biblical…
An All-Too-Moveable Feast
We American Catholics are now in the post-Easter Season of the Bollixed Holy Days. One of them—occurring…
Cheap Joy
On Holy Wednesday this year, I attended a local Catholic book club meeting on The Book of…
The Cosmic Gamemaker
Integrating God+Love+Lawby luis tellezwitherspoon, 80 pages, $12 In Integrating God+Love+Law, Luis Tellez urges readers, especially his target…
Making a Diverse College of Cardinals Work
With the exception of the two consistories held by Pope John XXIII in 1958 and 1959, every…
