Catholicism
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Free Exercise, Penance, and Delaware Court
Regular First Things readers know that the late Father Richard John Neuhaus never tired of arguing that…
Mary at Baptism?
On an escarpment high above the Euphrates River in eastern Syria sit the ruins of Dura-Europos, one…
Hamlet the Confessor
Two millennia ago, a Jewish rabbi declared that he had the authority to forgive sins or “send…
The Meaning of Christian Mercy
When Pope Francis announced his Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, now underway, he accompanied it with a…
Dear Father: Please Stop It
In all the sixteen documents of the Second Vatican Council, is there any prescription more regularly violated…
In Honor of David Steinmetz
David Curtis Steinmetz, one of the leading church historians of our time, died this past November at…
50 Years of Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue
Acting as it does as a summary and analysis of five decades of Lutheran-Catholic dialogue, 2015’s Declaration on…
Spotlight on the Vulnerable
Any major American newspaper would immediately fire a reporter who was caught using composite characters or inventing…
Liberal Racism Bares Its Fangs
Given the politically-correct hysteria that typically surrounds any discussion of racism these days, I hesitate to use…
Christmas and a World Upside-Down
Biblical scholars generally agree that Luke’s Gospel was written at least a generation later than Paul’s first…
Whatever Happened to Sacral Kingship?
The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300-1650)by Francis OakleyYale University Press, 440 pages,…
An Alternative to Terror
Seeking Freedom and Justice for Hungary by valerie miké hamilton books, 350 pages, $38.99 One of Budapest’s…
Remembering Two Great Bishops
We American Catholics are, in the main, notoriously uninterested in our own history. So it likely escaped…
Bonhoeffer’s Last Advent
One year before Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis on the morning of April 9, 1945,…
Wishing for God’s Plan: Mary’s fiat in Luke 1:38
In the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., hangs van Eyck’s The Annunciation, where a rainbow-winged…
