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Uber, But For Penance
Forgiveness 4 Youann bauer304 pages, overlook, $26.95 There’s something very modern, very grim about reading church reviews…
Cuban Hopes for the Papal Visit
In early June, the distinguished Catholic editor Dagoberto Valdés Hernández, a leader of the Cuban democratic opposition,…
What Romero’s Beatification Means
Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated by a right-wing sniper while celebrating Mass in 1980, was…
The Weakness of Laudato Si
Please enjoy this excerpt from “The Public Square” of the forthcoming August/September issue of First Things. To…
The Pope’s Moment of Grace
When the Pope’s highly anticipated encyclical, Laudato Si finally appeared, Detroit’s Archbishop Allen Vigneron summed up its…
A Response from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
The following letter from Archbishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS), is a…
Let’s Listen to the Pope on Climate
The Syllabus of Errors, issued in 1864 under the auspices of Pope Pius IX, famously ends by…
The Return of Catholic Anti-Modernism
Commentators are sure to make the false claim that Pope Francis has aligned the Church with modern…
Praise Be to You, Lord
The First World War lingers in the memory as humanity’s first encounter with industrialized killing on a…
The Latin American Pope and the Irish Poet
A great variety of people are looking forward to reading and digesting Pope Francis’s new encyclical, Laudato…
Now, the Kasper Theory of Democracy?
A few weeks ago, after Ireland voted to approve so-called “same-sex marriage,” a correspondent sent me an…
Dear Pope Francis: Remember the Standers
Pope Francis has spoken often about the problem of family breakdown. “The family is the fundamental cell…
Themes for Surviving “Ordinary Time”
I’m fortunate to hear good preaching on a regular basis. But even the best Catholic preaching these…
Residual Entities
The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Education by Fr. Peter Mitchell Ignatius,…
The Neglected God
Some years ago Nils A. Dahl wrote that God may be the “neglected factor in New Testament…
