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Pope Leo, Catholic Boomer?
Like Kremlinologists during the Cold War, American Catholics are searching for clues to the character of their new pope. Conservatives take heart that he wore the red mozzetta that...
Confession Eclipsed
It is often said that the end of Latin as the Church’s liturgical language was the most obvious change to Catholic life brought by the Second Vatican Council. There is truth to this, despite the fact...
The End of Prestige
True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church by francis x. maier ignatius, 284 pages, $24.95 The Future of the Catholic Church in the American Political...
Witness to Modernity
Confession of a Catholic Worker:Our Current Moment of Christian Witnessby larry s. chappignatius, 224 pages, $17.95 Sooner or later, every generation begins to look backward. Instead of blaming present...
Who Killed the Catholic University?
Have you not heard of that mad Catholic professor who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours and ran to the marketplace, crying, “I seek Catholic higher education...
Woke Religion
American Awakening:Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Timeby joshua mitchell encounter, 296 pages, $28.99 We Americans tell our history in light of our awakenings, those periodic spasms of...
Meeting the Contemporary Challenge
On Thursday, September 4th, Wolfhart Pannenberg, the greatest theological mind of German Protestantism in the second half of the 20th century, breathed his last. May he find rest in the...
