Catholicism

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The Last Grand Master from a Grander Age

John Haldane

The death of Sir Anthony Kenny on August 3, at the age of ninety-five, broke one of…

Spiraling Down in Speyer

George Weigel

Speyer is a charming city on the west bank of the Rhine River. Its splendid medieval core…

Have American Catholics Given Up on Evangelizing?

Francis X. Maier

Here’s a simple, biblical truth: We’re never as smart as we think we are, and we’re never…

The Wandering Bishops

Damian Thompson

Immediately after the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) consecrated four new bishops in an Alpine meadow…

A Catholic Moment or an Evangelical Century?

Timon Cline

Contrary to online chatter, we are not in a “Catholic moment.” But we may already be in…

The Summer Reading List: 2026

George Weigel

A 2025 YouGov poll revealed some interesting factoids about Americans’ reading habits—or lack thereof. Forty percent of…

Who Gets Custody of the Latin Mass?

Stephen Daisley

In any messy breakup, there are the inevitable conflagrations over custody of the kids, the dog, the…

Malta’s Answer to the Abortion Lobby

Jonathon Van Maren

For almost a decade, abortion activists have had the small Mediterranean country of Malta in their crosshairs.…

The Sudden Death of the African Church 

D. P. Curtin

Total civilizational collapse is unusual. In the West, ­continuity exists between the Roman past and our contemporary…

Are Autonomous Weapons Consistent with Human Rights?

Charles C. Camosy

What follows is a lightly edited version of the written testimony Camosy prepared for the Tom Lantos…

Briefly Noted

Modest is hottest, or so we’ve been told. In her first book, Anna Kalinowska rejects this school…

The Holdfast Sanctity of Sigrid Undset

Amy Fahey

When I traveled to Norway for the first time, I was already a devoted reader of Sigrid…

The Seduction of Simulation

R. R. Reno

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on technology and the human person, Magnifica Humanitas, offers a measured assessment of…

Schism by Design

Larry Chapp

And so it has happened. The Society of St. Pius X has gone ahead with its illicit…

Sexual Ethics Is a Social Justice Issue

Stephen G. Adubato

Pope Leo XIV recently stated that “We tend to think that when the church is talking about…