Catholicism
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Letters from the Vatican: #1
The whole course of Christianity from the first … is but one series of troubles and disorders.…
Wojtyłan Fantasies, Revisited
For almost three decades the Catholic left has turned intellectual somersaults arguing that John Paul II didn’t…
The Church’s Bigger Agenda
A number of America’s Catholic bishops care more about the Church’s public image than about the welfare…
The Courageous Honesty of Peter Steinfels
Peter Steinfels’s long career in journalism included years of service as editor of Commonweal (from which perch…
Excommunicate Cuomo
Calls for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s excommunication have echoed across Catholic social media ever since he signed into…
Our Therapeutic Bishops
What in the world is wrong with our leaders? This is a question twenty-first-century Americans must continually…
Covington Catholic and Our Inferiority Complex
There was plenty to get angry about in the disgraceful behavior of media figures and celebrities in…
Squandering Moral Capital
The morality of tyrannicide is not much discussed in today’s kinder, gentler Catholic Church. Yet that difficult…
Sin Aboundeth
The story of offshore finance is a familiar one. Individuals or companies want to avoid taxes, fines,…
Nothing About Us Without Us
The slogan “Nothing about us without us” was used by Solidarity in the 1980s in Poland, borrowing…
A Dismal Tradition
Readers of First Things will already know of the recent senatorial attacks on judicial nominees for their…
Lay Collaboration and Episcopal Authority
The Vatican is a hotbed of rumor, gossip, and speculation at the best of times—and these times…
False Counsel at Fordham
Shortly before my freshman year at Fordham University, I came out to my parents and close friends.…
Friendly Fire
A year that began with the Holy Father performing a quick wedding on a plane in Chile…
Baptizing the Spirit of the Age
The Church of England recently released a document of “pastoral” guidelines for performing an “Affirmation of Baptismal…
