Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Scandal and Allure of the Priesthood
The Catholic Church is a bone in the throat of our secular culture. Of course we’ve all…
In Defense of Converts
Over at the National Catholic Reporter blog, Michael Sean Winters is pointing readers to a recent Al-Jazeera…
Spadaro Contra Franciscum
Fr. Antonio Spadaro and Rev. Marcelo Figueroa have a recent item in the Italian Jesuit review La Civiltà Cattolica, complaining…
Awkward? Or Wise?
Asked to name books that gave me the greatest intellectual jolt in recent decades, I’d quickly cite…
The Good Soldier
Pope Francis declined to renew the appointment of the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of…
A Tragedy Either Way
On June 29, the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, George Cardinal Pell was charged with a…
Dachau Golgotha
The Priest Barracks: Dachau 1938–1945by guillaume zellerignatius press, 280 pages, $16.95 “We are the joyous Hitler Youth. We need no…
Befriending Geoffrey Chaucer: A Review
The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision: Chaucer on Overcoming Tyranny and Becoming Ourselvesby norm klassenwipf and stock,…
Fifty Years of Friendship with Cardinal Pell
Msgr. Thomas A. Whelan, my pastor when I was growing up in Baltimore, was a striking character:…
Il caso contro il Cardinal Pell
( English Version | Traduzione Italiana ) Cardinal:The Rise and Fall of George Pellby louise milliganmelbourne, 277 pages, $11.21…
The Case Against Cardinal Pell
( English Version | Traduzione Italiana ) Cardinal:The Rise and Fall of George Pellby louise milliganmelbourne, 277 pages, $11.21…
The Pope’s Power
Pope Francis was elected with a mandate to undertake institutional reform of the Vatican. But as curial…
Denying Transcendence
Near the beginning of his Life of St. Macrina, Gregory of Nyssa hesitates over a seemingly self-evident…
It’s Howdy Doody Time!
Three or four times each month, Father X (as I’ll call him here) celebrates the noontime daily…
Prejudice and the Blaine Amendments
During the coming weeks, the Supreme Court will hand down its decision in Trinity Lutheran of Columbia,…
