Catholicism

A spectre is haunting the preparations for next month’s Amazon Synod: the spectre of John Henry Newman,…

Cardinal Dulles, a frequent contributor to First Things, presented this address to the Cardinal Newman Society on…

A recent tweet from Union Theological Seminary in New York City indicates that the institution, which once…

Earlier today in Australia, a three-judge panel refused to overturn Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on five counts…

There will be much more to be said in the weeks and months ahead about the rejection…

What do Catholics believe happens to the bread and wine that are consecrated during the Liturgy of…

The most controversial document of this controversial pontificate, the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, is again at the center…

Forty years after Pope John Paul II bent the course of the 20th century in a more…

A priest was recently placed on administrative leave in my own Diocese of Charleston. Fr. Raymond Flores,…

Thanks to President Trump’s “America First” rhetoric and the rise of populist-nationalist parties in Europe, there’s a…

A visit to Albania today reminds the traveler of the worst of modernity and the fall of…

For more than a hundred days I have been ill with a condition called Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, a rare and unpleasant…

On first meeting Dr. Andrzej Grajewski, you probably wouldn’t guess that this mild-mannered Polish historian is one…

When historian Henry Adams and his fellow Americans—including Augustus St. Gaudens, Margaret Terry Chanler, Willa Cather, and…

Pride month has once again come and gone. As in previous years, entire sections of major cities…