Leroy Huizenga

Of the making of ­Bibles, it seems, there is no end. When I was growing up in the eighties and nineties, there were three dominant translations: Mainline Protestants had the Revised Standard Version (the major American Bible in the ­Tyndale–King James tradition), and then the . . . . Continue Reading »

A roundup of recent pieces of substance on the continuing controversy over Cardinal Robert Sarah's call for a return to the ad orientem posture. Continue Reading »

A primer and links on the recent dustup over Cardinal Robert Sarah's call for a return to ad orientem posture. Continue Reading »

Björn Odendahl, an editor at Katholisch.de, writes the following in the course of commenting on the Pope's plans for Africa in a piece entitled “The Romantic, Poor Church”:So also in Africa. Of course the Church is growing there. It grows because the people are socially dependent and . . . . Continue Reading »

The Catholic bishops of the United States have vowed to continue to resist the HHS Mandate, which forces Catholics and others to violate their consciences regarding grave issues of the human person and human life by requiring coverage of abortifacients, sterilization, and contraceptives. Rocco . . . . Continue Reading »

Thomas Pfau, the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English at Duke University, has written an incisive evaluation of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation at The Immanent Frame . I pass the piece on given interest in Gregory’s work among First Things’ readership and Ephraim . . . . Continue Reading »

This past weekend, the Diocese of Bismarck hosted THIRST , a eucharistic conference for the Year of Faith in support of the New Evangelization. Cardinal Dolan addressed the conference on Saturday morning after receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Mary , which sponsored his . . . . Continue Reading »

The normally gentle Ephraim Radner reviewed Candida Moss’ The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom in the May issue of First Things , smiting it hip and thigh: The tedium of repeated déjà vu in this sad little volume did at least send me back to . . . . Continue Reading »

Today, July 25, marks the 45th anniversary of the promulgation of Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI. As many in the Catholic world had been expecting the Church to permit contraception under certain circumstances thanks to many perhaps well-meaning but shortsighted clergy and theologians, the . . . . Continue Reading »

At the American Conservative , John Rodden and John Rossi present ” Not Hitler’s Pope: What history taught Pius XII about resisting tyrants ,” an efficient but substantive overview of Eugenio Pacelli’s dealings with the Nazis first as papal secretary of state under Pope Pius . . . . Continue Reading »