Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Ratzinger Diagnosis
Published a week short of his 92nd birthday, Joseph Ratzinger’s essay on the epidemiology of the clergy…
Heaven is Real
During Holy Week I sometimes think of the Woman in the Bus. The bus in question went…
9/11 in France
This interview with Rémi Brague, conducted by Jérôme Cordelier, was originally published in the French weekly Le Point.…
Fire in the Cathedral
It doesn’t matter how the fire started. The cause of such disasters is always sin. Perhaps it…
The Easter Effect Today
Some two millennia ago, a ragtag bunch of nobodies learned what their tortured and executed friend, the…
How Cardinal Wuerl Misled the Papal Foundation
In 2017, Cardinal Donald Wuerl provided false and misleading information to the board of the Papal Foundation…
Benedict and the Scandal
Writing nearly half a century ago (1970), the Italian Catholic philosopher Augusto Del Noce noted that I…
Benedict Speaks
Sex, scandal, the Church, and a general atmosphere of disintegration: That’s the main focus of Pope Emeritus…
Looking at Christ
Originally published as “Christus im Blick” in the March 28, 2019, issue of Die Tagespost. We are…
Belgium After Danneels
The March death of eighty-five-year-old Cardinal Godfried Danneels, the famously liberal Catholic archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and primate…
Purity in the Digital Age
When my family lived in Colorado, one of our greatest pleasures was the long drive west from…
The High-Priced Spread, Revisited
Readers of a certain vintage (say, over sixty) will remember the Imperial Margarine TV ad that dismissed…
An Open Letter to Cardinal Reinhard Marx
Your Eminence: I noted with interest your recent announcement of a “binding synodal process” during which the…
Christ-Haunted George Saunders
In his 2013 article “The Catholic Writer Today,” Dana Gioia argued that the term “Catholic writer” no…
A Tale of Two Georges
When a pope is elected, the cardinals who have just chosen him make their way to the…
