Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Malta’s Answer to the Abortion Lobby
For almost a decade, abortion activists have had the small Mediterranean country of Malta in their crosshairs.…
The Sudden Death of the African Church
Total civilizational collapse is unusual. In the West, continuity exists between the Roman past and our contemporary…
Are Autonomous Weapons Consistent with Human Rights?
What follows is a lightly edited version of the written testimony Camosy prepared for the Tom Lantos…
Briefly Noted
Modest is hottest, or so we’ve been told. In her first book, Anna Kalinowska rejects this school…
The Holdfast Sanctity of Sigrid Undset
When I traveled to Norway for the first time, I was already a devoted reader of Sigrid…
The Seduction of Simulation
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on technology and the human person, Magnifica Humanitas, offers a measured assessment of…
Schism by Design
And so it has happened. The Society of St. Pius X has gone ahead with its illicit…
Sexual Ethics Is a Social Justice Issue
Pope Leo XIV recently stated that “We tend to think that when the church is talking about…
What JD Vance Found in the Church
In the sixth book of his Confessions, St. Augustine relates a story about an encounter he had…
Leo’s Theology of Migration
Every pope has his defining mission, a papal charism of sorts that characterizes and in time becomes…
The Church of Claude
In this episode, First Things senior editor Dan Hitchens joins Virginia and Germán to discuss Magnifica Humanitas.…
The SSPX Leadership Against Scripture and Tradition
The Holy See has declared that, if the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) proceeds with the…
In the Land of St. Agatha
My ITA Airways flight landed near Palermo on a Sunday morning. After leaving my baggage and ten…
Pierre Manent and the Threat of Humanitarianism
Pierre Manent is widely recognized as one of the most insightful political philosophers writing today. In an…
This Catholic Moment
In this episode, Matthew Schmitz joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…
