Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Doctrix Teresa: A Churchly Theologian
This year marks the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, best known to…
Pope v. Paganism
The pagan temptation,” as the philosopher Thomas Molnar once described it, is hardly new—the Church has been…
When We Cared
Today, we mark the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. On April 24th, 1915, the nationalist Young…
Confession and the Armenian Genocide
My grandmother often talked about her father’s crucifixion to my mother and my aunt. Today my aunt…
A Genocide Remembered and Denied
On the night of April 24, 1915, as Constantinople’s Armenian community was deep in slumber following Easter…
Death, Distraction, and Modern Liberal Tastes
Last week I had to deliver a guest lecture at a liberal arts college entitled ‘”Each day…
Pope Francis and Zero Tolerance
The outcry against Pope Francis’s appointment of Chilean Bishop Juan Barros—who has long been associated with a…
The Friday We Call Good
The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we…
Dismantling the Cross
Generally speaking, there are two principal vocations in the life of the Catholic Church: marriage on the…
St. John Paul II and the “Tyranny of the Possible”
The reputations of the great often diminish over time. Ten years after his holy death on April…
The Indomitable and Effective Cardinal Pell
Shortly after George Pell was named Archbishop of Melbourne, he instituted several reforms at the archdiocesan seminary,…
Why Should a Jew Care Whether Christianity Lives or Dies?
I argued last month that Pope Francis ought to see the reconversion of Europe as his most…
Will David Hart’s Dog Go To Heaven?
In a recent issue of First Things (“Vinculum Magnum Entis,” April), David Hart recounts (or, perhaps, constructs) a…
Cardinal Kasper Responds to First Things Review of “Mercy”
In one of his first statements after his election, Pope Francis said of Cardinal Walter Kasper’s book…
Who is Paying Sam Singer?
Sam Singer urinated on the carpet of his partner in a public relations firm because of an…
