Catholicism
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The Gospel, Not “Listening,” Is the Message
Toward the end of the recent Roman meeting to discuss the Church’s twenty-first-century mission to marriage and…
The Myth of St. Francis
At the beginning of his 2020 encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis speaks of “an episode in the…
The Real World of Francisco de Zurbarán
Throughout the summer, I visited the National Gallery in London at least once a week. This is…
Why the Death Penalty Is a Sore Point for Papal Authority
Pope Leo XIV marked World Day Against the Death Penalty, observed on October 10, with the following…
Candace Owens and the Sin of Anti-Semitism
According to the online Encyclopedia Britannica, Sir Moses Montefiore (1784–1885) was “an Italian-born businessman who was noted…
Briefly Noted
Sir Andrew Motion is former poet laureate of the United Kingdom and cofounder of the Poetry Archive...
Vatican II Didn’t Kneel to Modernity
In his weekly catecheses on Vatican II, Pope Leo is now discussing Gaudium et Spes, one of…
Two Spectacles, Two Frances
The Stade de France, the country’s largest soccer stadium, holds about 80,000 fans. On Friday, September 25,…
America’s Empty Confessionals
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, James M. O’Toole…
Brave New Sexual Ethics
In this episode, Mark Regnerus joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…
The Faithful Joy of Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen
Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen seem to have had little in common. She favored rhinestones; he wore…
The Dead End of the Partisan Church
Route 132 along the north shore of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula offers one of the most scenic vistas…
Living Humanae Vitae in Poland
Humanae Vitae remains alive, if not entirely well, fifty-eight years after its promulgation. When Pope Paul VI…
The Vatican and Russia
Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s “foreign minister” (Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, to…
The Allure of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
During the fall semester of 2013, I began to teach a new course here at Yale: The…
