Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
It’s Always Thanksgiving Day
For most Americans in 2021, Thanksgiving means a day off from work, perhaps also an occasion to…
The History of National Flags in Churches
This summer, Christianity Today ran an article about Protestant pastors’ views on displaying national flags in sanctuaries…
America’s Search for Social Utopia
The New York City Council has voted to remove the statue of Thomas Jefferson from the council…
Lessons From the Reformation’s Pamphlet War
It is in many ways odd that we observe Reformation Day on October 31. Setting aside the…
Blessing Biden
Charles Sumner was caned on the Senate floor in 1856. Sumner, an abolitionist senator from Massachusetts, had…
How Google Saves Liberal Democracy
It is no longer possible,” John Dewey lamented in his 1939 book Freedom and Culture, “to hold…
The Witness of the Mafia Martyrs
The Archdiocese of Catania, Sicily’s second-largest city, has put a three-year ban on godparents at baptism and…
The New Jewish-Christian Encounter
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Jennifer Rosner joins the podcast…
Julia Yost on Trauma
Senior editor Julia Yost joins R. R. Reno to talk about her article from the October 2021…
Giving Billy Joel His Due
I vividly remember the first time I heard Billy Joel on the radio. Mainstream pop/rock radio was…
Why We Call God “Our Father”
Fr. Thomas Reese—former editor in chief of America magazine and now a senior analyst for Religion News…
Virtue vs. Virtue-Signaling
Last weekend I attended the “Higher Education Summit,” an annual gathering sponsored by the Classical Learning Test…
Stigmatize Social Media
For a few hours on October 4, the developed world experienced a temporary increase in emotional health…
We Are All Double Agents
No,” I wearily repeat, “the spy novel did not lose its raison d’être when the Cold War…
America Needs a Kosher Diner
America has given the world two things: baseball and jazz,” said a great professor of political philosophy…
