Catholicism
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Affirming and Celebrating Humanae Vitae
July 25 is the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical on the integrity of…
Promoting Predators
What did the American bishops know, and when did they know it? This is the question everyone…
The Problem of Sexually Active Priests
A “credible and substantiated” allegation of sexual abuse of a minor against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, new details…
Poland’s Christian Migrants
Across the West, an electoral backlash against large-scale immigration has contributed to the successes of populist movements…
Why We Need Loome Theological Booksellers
It’s not typical to stumble into a small-town bookstore and be greeted by the sounds of Gregorian…
Unity, Truth, and Catholic Social Thought
Catholic social teaching is Catholic moral teaching; Catholic moral teaching includes Catholic social teaching. It is a…
Lust and Augustine
I have watched with keen interest the debates unfolding around the Revoice Conference, which takes place in…
A Pastor in Full
Almost a quarter-century ago, Fr. Jay Scott Newman, back in Rome to finish a graduate degree after…
Acts and Us
The Church’s custom of reading virtually all of the Acts of the Apostles at daily Mass during…
Homelands and Social Doctrines
With hundreds of bishops coming to the Vatican for a synod in October 2001, I decided to…
State Irreligion
In the May 1892 issue of Le Banquet, a young Marcel Proust wrote a spirited condemnation, excerpted…
Poland and the Future of Europe
As a child growing up in the Polish diaspora, I often visited the land of my forefathers…
After the Irish Debacle
I wasn’t surprised by the result of Ireland’s May 25 referendum, which opened a path to legal…
Craving Approval Isn’t Evangelization
The bizarre comment and the weird gesture have not, until recently, been associated with high-ranking churchmen. Both,…
Italy Challenges the Postwar Order
Italy’s new government represents the most radical challenge yet to the order that has dominated Europe since…
