Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Still-Acceptable Prejudice
On October 5, Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett barely—just barely—won the approval of the Senate…
We Found Our Joy in Latin
Edwin Mary Akaedu walks with a cane in one hand and a rosary in the other as…
Pope Francis on the Development of Doctrine
On October 11, Pope Francis addressed a conference sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of…
The Catechism of the Catholic Church at 25
John Paul II called the Extraordinary Synod of 1985 to assess what had gone right and what…
Thomas Joseph White Teaches Catholicism
First Things will host Fr. Thomas Joseph White for a reception and discussion of The Light of…
The First Responder
Confessing all the secret things in the warm velvet box To the priest—he’s the doctor—he can handle…
The Persecution of Orthodoxy
If one considers the transformation of Plato’s Academy, champion of eternal truth, into a center of radical…
Fencing with Bigots
. . . being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members…
Fr. Martin Does Not Actually Say
If Facebook followers, book sales, and column inches are any measure, then Fr. James Martin has some…
The Filial Correction Online
A group of more than sixty Catholic theologians and clergy, including some well-known traditionalist writers and scholars,…
And the Petulance Prize Goes To . . .
It’s hard to decide who’s winning the Petulance Prize right now: Fr. James Martin, S.J., author of…
The Transmigration of Theological Nonsense
During the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the…
The Lost Purpose of Learning
In the autumn of AD 386, a thirty-two-year-old academic superstar named Aurelius Augustinus made a radical move:…
Christianity and the Thucydides Trap
China’s economic growth has been so preposterously huge and fast that statistics sound like a riff from…
A Memoir I Never Expected to Write
When the second volume of my John Paul II biography, The End and the Beginning, was published…
