Catholicism
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Healing Through Repentance
A few days ago, in the Vatican’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, Rocco Buttiglione entered the thorny debate over…
Who’s Afraid of Ad Orientem?
Cardinal Robert Sarah’s call on July 5th for a wider celebration of the Ordinary Form Mass ad…
Archbishop Chaput Leads the Way
When Philadelphia’s Archbishop Chaput released his “Pastoral Guidelines for Implementing Amoris Laetitia,” he accomplished two things. First,…
Karl Rahner: An Appreciation and Critique
Robert Royal’s fine book A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century consists, by…
On Not Settling for Mediocrity
CRACOW. With World Youth Day 2016 beginning here in less than three weeks, thoughts naturally turn to…
A Cinematic Lesson in Hope
At a moment like this when there doesn’t seem to be a lot going right—ascendant authoritarianisms throughout…
Bystanders to Genocide
“Who today still speaks of the massacre of the Armenians?” —Adolf Hitler, August 22, 1939 The visit…
If the Church Were a Haven
In the days following the Orlando shooting, many mourners observed that clubs like Pulse have been among…
What Francis Forgets About Marriage
How can one square the beautiful ideal of marriage set out by Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia…
Two Catholics and the Catholic Game
Baseball is by far the most Catholic of the sports on which we lavish such attention and…
The Other Assisi
We pilgrims pile into the Basilica of Saint Clare to see the San Damiano cross that spoke…
There Aren’t “Two Popes” in any Way, Shape, or Form
Life, even Catholic life, is full of ambiguities, but some things either are or aren’t. It’s a…
Who Lost Christian Europe?
In 1949, after Mao Tse-tung’s Communist troops overthrew the US-backed government of Chiang Kai-shek, the Communists seized…
Ritualed Knowing
Knowledge by Ritual: A Biblical Prolegomena to Sacramental TheologyBy Dru JohnsonEisenbrauns, 289 pages, $39.95 Epistemology and ritual…
Is Liberalism a Heresy?
The only viable vehicle of conservatism in modernity is a market-oriented liberalism that regards freedom within law…
