Catholicism
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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…
Renewing My Plea: Humanae Vitae after Obergefell
Some months back, I made a plea—that the Church not yield on withholding the Eucharist from divorced…
Flannery O’Connor and Catholic Realism
From this vale of tears, one can never be sure about the boundaries of acceptable behavior at…
Catholicism Unriddled
I first read Jaroslav Pelikan’s The Riddle of Roman Catholicism: Its History, Its Beliefs, Its Future (1959)…
Same-Sex Marriage and Heresy
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, many people have been wondering…
Remembering the Smiling Pope
He was Vicar of Christ for only thirty-three days—heading the tenth shortest pontificate in history—but Pope John…
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…
