Catholicism

John famously begins his Gospel with a piece of theology: “In the beginning was the Word, and…

History sometimes displays the happy capacity to arrange anniversaries so that one sheds light on another. On Nov.…

Forgive us if we pack the streets around Ed Sullivan Theatre next spring, searching the sky for…

Pope Francis recently gave a speech to the International Association of Penal Law advocating for the improvement…

My memory of Fr. Benedict Groeschel goes back to 1964, when he was the Catholic chaplain at…

The day my soul became Catholic was the day I found out that as a divorced and…

Fr. Benedict Groeschel, whose death we all mourn, lived at Trinity House in Larchmont, a hundred yards…

According to Vatican-speak, a specially scheduled session of the Synod of Bishops is an “Extraordinary Synod,” meaning…

All the attention devoted to the first Roman Catholic Synod on the Family, which wraps up this…

Two recent speeches by senior Vatican officials whose responsibilities involve wrestling with world politics suggest that some…

One year ago, in the December 2013 First Things issue, Dana Gioia regretted the decline of the Catholic…

She was called “La Popessa,” depicted as the iron lady of the Vatican, and said to have…

There’s a mainline congregation I walk past on my way to the local Starbucks. The church’s advertising…

A long-running battle between the so-called Catholic left and the so-called Catholic right concerns which political issues…

The city of Bismarck was founded in 1872 in what was then the Dakota Territory, at a…