Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
When Francis Came to Cuba
We should cheer any time a pope mingles with sinners. It’s what Jesus did, and what his…
Lessons from the Rough Rider for Today’s Political Ruffians
Sitting at a writing-desk in the White House on December 11, 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt was an…
Anthropological Pessimism and Theological Hope
In July 2013, while flying home from World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Pope Francis fielded…
A Benign Reading of a Confusing Paragraph
When I was asked to sign the Appeal critiquing Paragraph 137, I initially agreed with the reading of…
Popes in These United States
The history of popes in these United States is full of surprises. And one of them, to…
An Appeal
An Instrumentum laboris (working paper) was prepared for the XIV Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops…
Pope Francis’s Words of Affirmation
During a recent televised video conference hosted by ABC’s 20/20, Pope Francis spoke to several American Catholics…
A Franciscan Moment
Evangelicalism is best understood as a renewal movement within the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. Across…
An Epistolary Romp through Catholicism
In 2003, Elizabeth Maguire, publisher of Basic Books, made a proposal: I should write Letters to a…
The Joy of the Gospel and the Gospel of Life
Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., spoke to the national Religion Newswriters Association on Aug. 28, in preparation…
The Pope’s Visit
When Pope Francis arrives in America next month, he will undoubtedly find a very different country than…
The Deeper Issue at the Synod
Looking back on the controversy that preceded Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae, I get the…
Planning for Beauty
Discussions of liturgical music in many Catholic parishes have become needlessly polemical. The one thing we all…
Father Barron’s Affirmative Faith
Though already the leader of Word on Fire Ministries in Chicago and rector of nearby Mundelein Seminary,…
The amazing, and now Venerable, Father Al
At an inch or so over five feet and weighing, I would guess, something on the underside…
