Catholicism
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You Can Take That to the Bank
Jesus labeling money “Mammon” is most curious, seeing as the Aramaic term māmōnā means “faithful,” “reliable,” “true,”…
A Recipe for Getting Along with Family at Christmas
If you suspect that America is increasingly polarized, you are not alone. A Gallup Poll released in September…
How the Oxford Movement Saved Christmas
A world filled with great social and technological change, religious uncertainty, and a desire for ritual and…
On Kneeling: A Response to Cardinal Cupich
Putting “O Holy Night” on the program at Christmas Masses in Chicago this year may prove a…
Jimmy and the Patriarch, at Christmas
The post-Christmas liturgical calendar may seem a bit Scrooge-like, as the child-centered, innocent joy of the Nativity…
Why I Am Not Catholic
Speaking at the Leonine Forum in D.C. recently, I was asked a friendly but pointed question: “Why…
The Divine Light of Notre-Dame Cathedral
It was a sunny spring day in May 1959 when I entered the nave of Notre-Dame de…
What Conclave Yearns For
The pope is dead. Sede vacante. From the round earth’s imagined corners come the 120 cardinal-electors, the progressive…
Pope Francis and the Catholic Sensitivity to Jews
How should Catholics speak about Jews in general, and Israel in particular? That question was raised anew…
Pope Francis and Catholic Sensitivity to Jews
How should Catholics speak about Jews in general, and Israel in particular? That question was raised anew…
“Luce,” Mascot of Dumbed-Down Catholicism
During his years as professor of fundamental theology at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, Salvatore “Rino” Fisichella was…
Can the Ignatius Study Bible Save Biblical Studies?
The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible—a Bible decades in the making, under the editorship of Steubenville scholars Scott…
Disintegrating England
The English Soul:Faith of a Nationby peter ackroydreaktion books, 416 pages, $30 Peter Ackroyd is a major…
The Seven Sins Against the Holy Spirit: A Synodal Tragedy
Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches” (Rev.…
A Great Christian Witness, Too Little Known in the West
The Venerable Andrey Sheptytsky, who died eighty years ago on November 1, 1944, was one of twentieth-century…
