Catholicism
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Letters—December 2017
Contempt Of Court James Nuechterlein (“Remembering Peter Berger,” October) feels that the 1996 First Things symposium on…
What’s Changed Since Humanae Vitae?
Throughout this academic year, Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University is hosting a series of lectures, billed as the…
In Defense of Regal Popes
Given that the evils against which he fought—totalitarian repression, unrestrained capitalism, sexual immorality, moral heresy, aggressive secularism,…
A Cool Cardinal
Blase Cupich wants Catholics to grow up. Cardinal archbishop of a city famous for the husky, brawling…
Pope Francis and the Youth
The recent meeting of the U.S. Catholic bishops in Baltimore attracted significant notice, with Kansas City’s Archbishop Joseph…
Four Ideas About Development
I wish to draw attention to four obvious ideas about what is called “development of doctrine,” which,…
Is Pope Francis a Liberal Protestant?
Is the pope Catholic?” For at least a century, this was the way we Anglicans joked about…
As the Bard Might Say . . .
Four centuries after his death, Shakespeare remains a peerless playwright because of his remarkable insight into the…
Pope Francis’s Reset Button
The past two years have seen endless conflict over Pope Francis’s 2016 post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Amoris laetitia.…
An Exercise in Thoughtless “Theology”
In July, Antonio Spadaro, S.J., editor of La Civiltà Cattolica, and Marcelo Figueroa, a Presbyterian pastor and editor…
“You Have to Decide.”
In writing Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II, one of my secondary…
The Principled Ambivalence of Pope Francis
Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium is rightly considered the inaugural address of his pontificate. In it,…
Letters—November 2017
Burning Bridges I would like to thank First Things for the kind invitation to respond to Fr.…
A Time of Crisis
A crisis of doctrine, such as the one through which the Catholic Church is now passing, has…
The Church in Afghanistan
Fr. Giovanni Scalese is a Barnabite priest and the ecclesiastical superior of the Roman Catholic Mission of…
