Catholicism
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Francis Canavan: A Jesuit for the Confused and Distressed
Fun is Not Enough: The Complete Catholic Eye Columns by francis canavan, s.j., edited by dawn eden goldstein;…
Paul VI in 2018
Paul VI’s landmark encyclical on birth control, Humanae Vitae, turns fifty this year. It was controversial before…
Deliver Us From “Dynamic Equivalence”
Pope Francis has a problem with “lead us not into temptation,” the penultimate line of the Lord’s…
Viva Cristo Rey!
In the 1920s, when the United States had a quasi-Stalinist regime on its southern border, “Viva Cristo…
The Curial Sidelines
I suspect the employees of the Roman Curia have come to view the pope’s annual Christmas greetings…
The Secrets of the Confessional
It was a bad sign when several jolly-looking priests got into a car and pulled out of…
Trimming the Ark
This essay first appeared in the May 7, 1966 issue of the Tablet and is reprinted with…
Carols and the Christmas Paradox
Advent is the season of watching and waiting, but it is also, as the days draw nearer…
The Tragedy and Scandal of Cardinal Law
Why do good people do bad things? That perennial question arises anew with the death of Cardinal…
The Crèche and the Gap
For the past decade or so, I’ve been assembling a mid-sized Judean village of Fontanini crèche figures,…
The Possibility of a Catholic Social Order
Peter Kwasniewski, a professor at Wyoming Catholic College and a frequent commentator, has recently published A Reader…
Make Straight the Path
Christmas is coming, and I don’t really know what to do. My neighbors all have their lights…
What Does It Mean to Say “I Absolve You”?
This is the first in a series of reflections by Cardinal Müller on questions of present importance…
Word Made Flesh
Before John proclaims the gospel of God, He introduces the God of the gospel. God has an…
The Little Eschaton
Different kinds of Christians do Christmas in their different ways, and fights naturally break out among opposing…
