Catholicism

A selection of recent articles on this topic

A Diagnosis of Moralosis

John Waters

An odd thing happened in Ireland on Easter Sunday. A politician, a senator who had been chairperson of…

Who May Receive Communion?

Gerhard Cardinal Müller

This is the fifth in a series of reflections by Cardinal Müller on questions of present importance…

From the Heart of a Young Father

Charles J. Chaput

Bishops get a lot of unsolicited mail from strangers, some of it pleasant, some of it much…

What Would Have Stopped Martin Luther

Michael D. Breidenbach

In the popular telling of Martin Luther’s story, nothing could have stopped the Protestant reformer from challenging…

An Ambiguous Exhortation

Dan Hitchens

Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation, fittingly published in April, is full of springtime hope. It speaks candidly to…

A Tradition Unlike Any Other

Brandon McGinley

If you tune in to CBS at 2 p.m. on the second Sunday of April, you will…

Hell Yes

Peter J. Leithart

Last week, the Drudge Report cited an interview with Pope Francis in tabloid all-caps: POPE DECLARES NO…

Conscience of a Kennedy

Charles Donovan

A cruel April is at hand for the memory of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Tomorrow…

Air Turbulence and the Resurrection

George Weigel

If there’s anything Catholics in the United States should have learned over the past two decades, it’s…

The Heroism of Arnaud Beltrame

Jean-Baptiste, crmd

On March 23 in the French town of Trèbes, an ISIS attacker entered a supermarket, killed two…

What Young Catholics Want

Matthew Schmitz

Several French dioceses, seeking to promote their 2018 fundraising drive, had a few young Catholics take a…

I, It, Thou

Peter J. Leithart

Martin Buber’s classic I and Thou describes a doubleness in human life that is captured by two…

Learning to Love Our Earthly Home

Trenton Mattingly

Congratulations to Trenton Mattingly for winning second place in our third annual Student Essay Contest. Here is…

Italy’s Rebellion

Alessandra Bocchi

Identity, tradition, and religion have new prominence in Italy after the recent election. The Northern League, once…

Getting Ready for Synod-2018

George Weigel

The headline on a March 3 story at the Crux website was certainly arresting: “Cardinal on charges…