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Cardinal Wilton Gregory has now retired as the archbishop of Washington, D.C. In 2001, Gregory was elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The following year,...

Has theology become devalued in the contemporary Catholic Church? I sometimes fear that this is the case—and for the following reasons.   Ever since the implementation of the Charter for...

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT), the groundbreaking ecumenical initiative founded by Fr. Richard Neuhaus and Chuck Colson in 1994. ECT made quite...

Even the casual reader of Dignitas Infinita (DI), the recent declaration by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, will likely be impressed by the 116 footnotes that...

It is old news that Pope Francis has a strong predilection for the thought of St. Vincent of Lérins. Again and again, he has cited one sentence from Vincent’s...

Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the death of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. During his life, Dulles was the premier Catholic systematic theologian in the United States. He was...

We must not allow the year 2023 to slip away without commemorating the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Fides et Ratio (FR). That great document, surely...

Pope Benedict XVI, after a long and productive life in service to Christ and the Church, has now gone to God. The Church prays for him, invoking the Redeemer’s...

In March, Pope Francis removed Daniel Fernández Torres from his bishopric of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. According to Fernández, his removal came without formal explanation and without due process.  The...

The aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, which opened sixty years ago on October 11, 1962, has not been an easy time for the Catholic Church.  Benedict XVI, describing...

Pope Francis has often turned to St. Vincent of Lérins for theological enlightenment. Most recently, on a flight on July 29, Francis said Vincent provided a “very clear and...

At the turn of the twentieth century, the modernist crisis roiled the entire Catholic Church. Modernism’s opponents claimed that exegesis and theology had become infected with rationalism, thereby undermining...

At 6 p.m. on October 19, 1965, a dramatic event occurred at the Second Vatican Council. At precisely that hour, Cardinal Augustin Bea, president of the Secretariat for Christian...

I was astonished to read recently that the archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond, is seeking to laicize all clergy who have been removed from ministry because of credible...

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