Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Holy Feminine
Catherine of Siena by giuliana cavallini, o.p. continuum, 292 pages, $39.28 The Flowing Light of the Godhead…
John Paul II and the Crisis of Humanism
As Time and other premillennial makers-of-lists have discovered in recent months, there is no lack of candidates…
Witness to the Witness
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by george weigel harpercollins/cliff books, 992 pages,…
Edith Stein, Apostate Saint
The recent canonization of Edith Stein as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross by the Roman Catholic…
The University at the Heart of the Church
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 94 (June/July 1999): 22-25. The apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), “From…
Augustine Then and Now
Living in Two Cities: Augustinian Trajectories in Political Thought by eugene teselle university of scraton press, 227…
A Christian University: Defining the Difference
The title of George Marsden’s most recent book on Christian higher education referred to the idea of…
Catholics, Protestants, and Contraception
It has become a commonplace that religious controversy today occurs more often across church boundaries than between…
Popes for All Seasons
God’s Representatives: The Eight Twentieth-century Popes by james bentleyconstable. 200 pages, £16.95 . Saints and Sinners: A History…
Revolutionary of the Heart
Since John Cardinal O’Connor’s announcement at his Sunday Mass on November 9, 1997 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
John Paul II on the American Experiment
In receiving the credentials of the Honorable Lindy Boggs as Ambassador to the Holy See on December…
The Ways We Worship
One weekend in that tumultuous year 1968 I was on call at a parish church outside of…
Memoirs of a Catholic Boyhood
The muddy Illinois River ranks among the least distinguished of the Mississippi’s tributaries, a brown expanse of…
Augustine’s World and Ours
One of the most striking differences between constitutional democracies and tyrannies in our time pertains to certain…
Statecraft and Stagecraft
American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most Powerful Church by charles r. morris times…
