Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Right to Be Yourself?
During the rollout of our university’s Preferred First Name Policy (PFNP), the McGill Reporter offered this apologia…
The Erosion of Catholic Sacramental Discipline in Germany
On February 1, 2017, the German Bishops’ Conference published a press release announcing their new document, “The…
The Bishop and the Nazis
Count Clemens August von Galen, a member of an old aristocratic family, was consecrated Bishop of Münster…
A Book for Me and All Protestants to Read
I recently had the privilege of recording an hour-long conversation with Archbishop Charles Chaput, reflecting on the…
A Lent to Remember
The best Lent of my life involved getting up every day at 5:30 a.m., hiking for miles…
The Pontifical Academies’ Mess of Pottage
In a recent article at Crux, I argued that invitations by the Pontifical Academies to Paul Erhlich…
The New Jansenism: A Pessimism That Would Canonize All
One of my students, in a paper concerning the Church’s doctrine on the four last things, made…
The Dangers of Half-Truths
You’ve read it again and again. Finnis and Grisez asserted it. Joseph Seifert said the same thing…
No Authority Over Divine Law
In his column this week, George Weigel writes that “it cannot be the case that a grave…
Paul, Apollos, and Cephas, all Over Again
In April 2016, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth, England, issued a pastoral letter on the interpretation of…
How Does Catholic Identity Affect Hookup Culture?
Early research into hookup culture on Catholic campuses indicated that Catholic campuses were just like secular campuses.…
Synod-Talk, Again
On January 13, the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops published a “preparatory document” for the…
Peter Says No
Perhaps the greatest Anglican intellect of the late twentieth century, Henry Chadwick, described Blessed John Henry Cardinal…
A Papal Tutor of Heroic Virtue
On January 20, Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to publish decrees acknowledging…
The Invention of Pigs
Come our one great bushfirepigs, sty-released, declined to quittheir pavements of gravel and shit.Other beasts ran headlong,…
