Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Two False Newmans
On October 13, Pope Francis will declare John Henry Newman a saint. Catholics from around the world…
Statesmen and Technocrats
Proportional representation used to be blamed for the collapse of the Weimar Republic: Too much fragmentation crippled…
Of Cigarettes and Grace
The dramatic action of grace is rooted in Christology: Christ descended into the world and passed through the…
A German Attack on Christ’s Lordship
Half a millennium after the Reformation, Germans are making trouble again for the Roman Church. This time,…
Turning Sauls into Pauls
A third of the way through the Book of Acts, a man named Saul takes over the…
Balderdash on the Tiber
Today’s first reading is from an explication of the academic program of the reconfigured Pontifical John Paul…
Newman at the Amazon Synod
A spectre is haunting the preparations for next month’s Amazon Synod: the spectre of John Henry Newman,…
Newman’s University Today
Cardinal Dulles, a frequent contributor to First Things, presented this address to the Cardinal Newman Society on…
The Madonna
When you get to be my age—71 or thereabouts—remembering takes up an ever-increasing proportion of your mental…
Flower Power?
A recent tweet from Union Theological Seminary in New York City indicates that the institution, which once…
The Altar’s Tears
A biweekly column about Jewish things. The first institution of Jewish society is the family. At home,…
Help My Unbelief
My brother committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in the fall of 1980. It was a gut-wrenching…
All You Need Is Jesus
I’ve been to see the “good-time movie of the summer”: Yesterday, the story of a world in…
Hitler the Progressive
Has the mass murder of Europe’s Jews eclipsed the other significant horrors of Hitler’s Germany? Does it…
Australian Justice in the Dock
Consider this sequence of events, familiar to some but evidently not to others: March 2013: Prior to…
