Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Mother Seton and the American Crisis
As America’s troubles intensify, and anger and violence spread, it’s essential for people of good will, especially those…
Catholicism in the Modern World
Rev. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., is associate professor of systematic theology and director of the Thomistic Institute…
Revelation on Tap: Vatican I and the “Amoris Laetitia” Controversy
In AD 866, Pope St. Nicholas I condemned the use of torture for extracting confessions as a…
Whence the Convert Problem?
I was initially perplexed by the recent dust-up over converts in the Catholic commentariat. It seemed an…
Pope Benedict’s Red Thread
One shouldn’t speak of a “cult of personality” when describing the papal devotional items that are offered…
A Church That Is A Home
Writing in Commonweal, Massimo Faggioli complains that the Catholic Church in America is dominated by converts—including me. Faggioli is a…
On Being a Lapsed Catholic
I was the first of my family to apostatize, and—since the family ends in me—I must be…
“Sensus Fidei” and Fr. Martin
In a July 14 article, responding to queries about Building a Bridge, his new book on the…
Questions of Competence
It’s a safe bet that 99.95 percent of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of…
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…
