Catholicism
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Mary’s Most Loyal Children
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a solemn feast day and a holy day of obligation…
The Evangelical Academy
We were doing an interview on an NPR station, a kind of “point-counterpoint” thing. The other interviewee…
A Millennial Column
I’ve been writing op-ed columns for the Catholic press since 1979. In its present form, “The Catholic…
Tradition and the Individual Theologian
Catholics, Orthodox, and not a few Protestants have been known to reject theological novelties with a wave…
Shipwreck and Mission
The post-Vatican II Lectionary for Mass has many fine features, one of which is the continuous reading…
Uncle Sam Eavesdropping Outside the Confessional
On 28 March, 1606, Fr. Henry Garnet, an English Jesuit, went on trial in London. He was…
What Women Bishops Mean For Christian Unity
On July 14, 2014, the General Synod of the Church of England voted to permit women to…
An Eminent Distortion of History
As the world marked the silver anniversary of the Polish elections of June 1989, which eventually brought…
Summorum Pontificum, Seven Years On
Seven years ago this week, Pope Benedict XVI promulgated the apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum, liberalizing use of…
Books for Summer Reading
Real readers read books all year round. But the convention of the “summer reading list” has become…
John Paul and Francis at Yad Vashem
As that familiar parody of bad fiction has it, “it was a dark and stormy night”—March 21,…
Is Spain Regaining Its Faith?
Like Quebec, Ireland, or Boston, Spain has epitomized the fading of Catholic faith. In the twentieth century, religious…
The Pope Is Catholic
A recent story in the L.A. Times about the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops…
Innocents Abroad
Seeing as the Catholic Church has itself been the victim of a damaging disinformation campaign, one might…
Will Catholics Comply?
Sometime soon, the Supreme Court will announce its decision in the Hobby Lobby case. Depending on how…
