Catholicism
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The Catholics Reviving Renaissance-Style Arts Patronage
A cohort of American Catholic patrons of the arts sense the time is ripe for another Renaissance.…
Fulton Sheen: Master Evangelist
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Cheryl Hughes joins in…
Demythologizing Some Recent Catholic History
The National Catholic Reporter recently saw fit to mark Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s seventy-fifth birthday by perpetuating two…
Ireland’s Abolitionist Titan
Until 2023, the library at Trinity College in Dublin was named after George Berkeley, one of the…
Lent and the Purification of Memory
On December 20, 2002, I was at lunch in the papal apartment when the wide-ranging conversation John…
Catholicism at the End of the World
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Jeremy Beer joins in…
Biden Is the New Francis
Early in 2016, articles began to appear noting similarities between Pope Francis and Donald Trump. Trump’s promise…
Fiction and Last Things
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Cassandra Nelson joins in…
Pope Francis and “Selective Indignation”
Last month, the chief rabbi of Rome accused Pope Francis of “selective indignation” in his comments about…
Necessary Societies
On the Dignity of Society is an anthology of Russell Hittinger’s previously published articles, organized into three…
Letter to a Young Bishop
Your Excellency, I’m writing only because you asked. I have so far successfully avoided the role of…
Who’s Really Calling the Shots at U.S. Diocesan Chanceries?
The Second Vatican Council taught that bishops are not mere delegates of the pope, regional managers of…
Why Women Cannot Be Deacons
Much has recently been written about the possibility of the Church sacramentally ordaining women to the diaconate.…
Are Diversity and Catholicism “Equally Important” at Notre Dame?
Notre Dame’s provost, John McGreevy, laid out priorities for faculty hiring to Notre Dame faculty in a…
The USCCB Should Reject Federal Funds
On Monday, Pope Francis sent a letter to the bishops of the United States. Criticizing the Trump…
