Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Pope Francis’s Dichotomies
The Roots of Pope Francis’s Social and Political Thought:From Argentina to the Vaticanthomas r. rourkerowman and littlefield,…
Watching George Pell
Cardinal George Pell, emeritus Archbishop of Sydney and now resident in Rome, is Australia’s most senior prelate.…
Interreligious Dialogue with Edge and Purpose
The evening of September 12, 2006, was, in a word, memorable. My wife and I were having…
Keep Christianity Weird
Destroyer of the Godsby larry hurtadobaylor, 304 pages, $19.95 Three professors at a prestigious divinity school recently…
Catholic Lite and Europe’s Demographic Suicide
Ten years ago, after my meditation on Europe, The Cube and the Cathedral, had appeared in several…
Burying Benedict
Though Benedict is still living, Francis is trying to bury him. Upon his election in 2013, Francis…
The Challenge of Fatima
If there were any doubts about the enduring power of Fatima, Pope Francis has put them to…
Tracing Church History through Old Newspapers
There is a saying, variously attributed, that journalism is the first rough draft of history. There is…
A Hillarian Lesson for Church Leaders
Perhaps it was being “overcome with Paschal joy” (as the Prefaces for Easter put it). Maybe it…
With Cardinal Sarah, the Liturgy Is in Good Hands
Ever since I first read the Letters of Saint Ignatius of Antioch in the 1950s, one passage…
Retrieval for the Sake of Renewal
Several years ago Mark Noll wrote an article titled “So You’re A Baptist—,” in which he asked:…
The Fifty-Day Party
If you can find it in your attic, open your old, pre–Vatican II missal, and look at…
Ratzinger Rising
When Joseph Ratzinger resigned as Pope Benedict XVI, some of his opponents predicted, unkindly, that his abdication…
Let’s Not Make a Deal…at Least this Deal
Helping those who have broken away from the Catholic Church come back into full communion is a…
Homage to a Christian Humanist
When John T. Noonan, Jr. died last week at the age of 90, the American people lost…
