Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
I Do?
To understand why the United States has the highest divorce rate in the world, go to some…
The Denomination Called Catholic
By now, nearly everyone has heard the statistics. From the end of Vatican II in 1965 to…
The Nuns’ Story
Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millenia by jo ann kay mcnamara harvard university press, 751…
Robert Graham, S.J.
On February 10, 1997, Father Robert Graham, S.J., an indefatigable defender of Pope Pius XII against posthumous…
Pope 007?
His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time by carl bernstein and marco…
In Defense of Sectarian Catholicity
Elsewhere in this issue ( “The Unhappy Fate of Optional Orthodoxy,” Public Square ) my colleague Richard…
The Politics of Baptism
In the second chapter of his letter to the Galatians, Paul recounts how on a visit to…
That They May Be One
The Public Square It was, if I recall, Evelyn Waugh who wrote about a Catholic gentleman whose…
Preaching As Though We Had Enemies
I am just postmodern enough not to trust “postmodern” as a description of our times, for it…
The Challenge of the Catechism
I The Catechism of the Catholic Church is the boldest challenge yet offered to the cultural relativism…
Some of My Best Friends
Revolutions in consciousness sometimes announce themselves in minor, even trivial, ways. It was some ten or twelve…
Re-Viewing Vatican II
George Lindbeck, the distinguished Lutheran theologian, served from 1962 through 1965 as one of sixty “Delegated Observers”…
Recalling America
Since 1950 I have worked with my many sisters from around the world as one of the…
The Fifties Without Soul
This is not a book review, it’s a complaint. I have been reading—and, I confess, enormously enjoying—David…
A President in Process
It turns out, in retrospect, to have been a most ironically timed meeting. The White House Communications…
