Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Angelic Stubbornness
God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faithby robert cardinal sarahinterviewed by nicolas diatignatius, 285 pages, $17.95 On…
Is Liberalism a Heresy?
The only viable vehicle of conservatism in modernity is a market-oriented liberalism that regards freedom within law…
Only Francis Can Go to China?
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, recently told an Italian journal that relations…
The One Really Interesting Story
The Christian Church confesses that [what the world calls]“myth” is history itself. She recognizes herself by this…
The Other Footnote in Amoris Laetitia
Pope Francis’s recent Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia is, for the most part, a beautiful presentation of Catholic…
