Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
The Lamb in the Confessional
Chateaubriand’s autobiography, Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, evokes a series of times and places as various as the…
Liberal Integralism
I’m baffled when people warn of the dangers of “Catholic integralism.” Last year, the Jesuit magazine La…
Learning from the White Rose
Seventy-five years ago last month, Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Christian Probst were executed by…
