Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Turning Sauls into Pauls
A third of the way through the Book of Acts, a man named Saul takes over the…
Balderdash on the Tiber
Today’s first reading is from an explication of the academic program of the reconfigured Pontifical John Paul…
Newman at the Amazon Synod
A spectre is haunting the preparations for next month’s Amazon Synod: the spectre of John Henry Newman,…
Newman’s University Today
Cardinal Dulles, a frequent contributor to First Things, presented this address to the Cardinal Newman Society on…
Flower Power?
A recent tweet from Union Theological Seminary in New York City indicates that the institution, which once…
Cardinal Pell, Scapegoat
Earlier today in Australia, a three-judge panel refused to overturn Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on five counts…
The Australian Disgrace
There will be much more to be said in the weeks and months ahead about the rejection…
Look! It Is Jesus
What do Catholics believe happens to the bread and wine that are consecrated during the Liturgy of…
Betraying the Legacy of John Paul II
The most controversial document of this controversial pontificate, the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, is again at the center…
Extraordinary Coincidence, Contemporary Lesson
Forty years after Pope John Paul II bent the course of the 20th century in a more…
Scandal in South Carolina
A priest was recently placed on administrative leave in my own Diocese of Charleston. Fr. Raymond Flores,…
On the New “Nationalism”
Thanks to President Trump’s “America First” rhetoric and the rise of populist-nationalist parties in Europe, there’s a…
Resurrection in Albania
A visit to Albania today reminds the traveler of the worst of modernity and the fall of…
The Terror of Goodbye
For more than a hundred days I have been ill with a condition called Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, a rare and unpleasant…
The Quiet Hours of Leonid Brezhnev
On first meeting Dr. Andrzej Grajewski, you probably wouldn’t guess that this mild-mannered Polish historian is one…
