Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Diagnosis of Moralosis
An odd thing happened in Ireland on Easter Sunday. A politician, a senator who had been chairperson of…
Who May Receive Communion?
This is the fifth in a series of reflections by Cardinal Müller on questions of present importance…
From the Heart of a Young Father
Bishops get a lot of unsolicited mail from strangers, some of it pleasant, some of it much…
What Would Have Stopped Martin Luther
In the popular telling of Martin Luther’s story, nothing could have stopped the Protestant reformer from challenging…
An Ambiguous Exhortation
Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation, fittingly published in April, is full of springtime hope. It speaks candidly to…
A Tradition Unlike Any Other
If you tune in to CBS at 2 p.m. on the second Sunday of April, you will…
Hell Yes
Last week, the Drudge Report cited an interview with Pope Francis in tabloid all-caps: POPE DECLARES NO…
Conscience of a Kennedy
A cruel April is at hand for the memory of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Tomorrow…
Air Turbulence and the Resurrection
If there’s anything Catholics in the United States should have learned over the past two decades, it’s…
The Heroism of Arnaud Beltrame
On March 23 in the French town of Trèbes, an ISIS attacker entered a supermarket, killed two…
What Young Catholics Want
Several French dioceses, seeking to promote their 2018 fundraising drive, had a few young Catholics take a…
I, It, Thou
Martin Buber’s classic I and Thou describes a doubleness in human life that is captured by two…
Learning to Love Our Earthly Home
Congratulations to Trenton Mattingly for winning second place in our third annual Student Essay Contest. Here is…
Italy’s Rebellion
Identity, tradition, and religion have new prominence in Italy after the recent election. The Northern League, once…
Getting Ready for Synod-2018
The headline on a March 3 story at the Crux website was certainly arresting: “Cardinal on charges…