Catholicism
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The Future of Catholic Theology
About ten years ago I found myself in China teaching a weeklong philosophy seminar on the thought…
Ecumenical Fear and Loathing
The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970sby udi…
War On The Weak and a Bad Bishop
A case study in brain-dead deconsolidation: marijuana legalization. Marijuana has been legal in New York State since…
The Ascension vs. Human Composting
There are many reasons to regret the transfer of the Solemnity of the Ascension to the seventh…
The Fallacy of Private Religion
Catholic Twitter recently enjoyed a rare moment of unity when Labour MP Chris Coghlan used the platform…
An Open Letter to the Bishops of Latin America
Fr. Clodovis M. Boff, OSM, was a leading figure in the development of liberation theology before emerging…
Ireland Erases Its Catholic Inheritance
The findings of a recent survey commissioned by Ireland’s Iona Institute for Religion and Society have shed…
Why the Catholic Church’s Voice on AI Could Be the Most Consequential
Recently, Pope Leo XIV delivered a personal message to Silicon Valley executives, academics, and Vatican officials gathered…
On Flannery O’Connor’s Centenary
How appropriate that Flannery O’Connor should have been born on the Solemnity of the Annunciation: the liturgical…
Pope Leo, Catholic Boomer?
Like Kremlinologists during the Cold War, American Catholics are searching for clues to the character of their…
Creating U.S. Catholicism
In 1928, Undersecretary of State William R. Castle Jr. wrote about “by far the most important Roman…
Petrocentrism: A Problem?
One hundred fifty-five years ago, when the freshly minted Kingdom of Italy conquered the rump of the…
Bishop Martin Is Out of Touch
When Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte drafted sweeping restrictions on traditional liturgical practices—including Latin,…
A Catholic Fix for American Higher Education?
Why are so many American colleges and universities in crisis? Drew Gilpin Faust, an accomplished Civil War…
Pope Leo XIII and Emperor Wilhelm II
The inauguration of the new pope, held on the 105th birthday of St. John Paul II, was…
