Catholicism
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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…
Encomium for an Evangelical Catholic
Robert Jenson was my closest friend and collaborator for sixty years. We first met when we were…
Back to the Liturgy Wars
At long last, we are back to the liturgy wars. In the past month, Pope Francis has…
Holy Routine
This year marks the three hundredth birthday of one of the most influential art scholars ever to…
Heilige Gewohnheit
(English | Deutsch) Die Winckelmann-Formel In diesem Jahr begeht die Gemeinde der Kunstfreunde den 300. Geburtstag eines…
Speaker Ryan Invites a Social Doctrine Conversation
CNN is not the customary locale-of-choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine. But that’s what Paul…
On Mere Protestantism
Today, we launch a new Protestant confession: The Reforming Catholic Confession. In honor of the five-hundredth anniversary…
Christianity Is For Cucks
“Dishevelled white men were staring ahead with vague, uncomprehending eyes, to the end of the room where…
It is Written in the Book
All good Catholics know that nominalism is a Bad Thing. Nominalism is the substitution of “names” for…
From Hippo to Nashville
In lectures over the last couple of years, I have frequently mentioned Philip Rieff’s Psychological Man as…
What Mary Teaches
A couple of decades ago, when I was a theology professor, I got a call from my…
The Pope and the President
The past summer has seen no shortage of controversy in Washington. Until the catastrophe in Houston, the…
Mary, Foundress of America
Earlier this summer, I led the first pilgrimage from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to the Basilica…
