Catholicism
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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…
The Pope’s Five-Year Plan
In their famous final meeting, Pope Francis told Cardinal Gerhard Müller that he wanted to limit the…
The War Against Cardinal Sarah
Now that Cardinal Gerhard Müller has been removed from his post at the Vatican, the main target…
Whose Bourgeois Morality?
In the latest round of debate over Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on marriage and the…
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…
