Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
It’s the Theology, Stupid
What went wrong, and when, and why? Father Robert W. Crooker of the University of St. Thomas…
Jacques Maritain and Vatican Council II
When, many years ago, I first read Jacques Maritain’s The Peasant of the Garonne, I shared the…
What Should Pius XII Have Done?
“During the discussion about the possible beatification/canonization of Pope Pius XII the major critique of Pius has…
Media Abused and Abusing
“Abused by the Media,” while not without its own problems, is a valuable article by Peter Steinfels,…
Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
Economics, as a social science, occupies a peculiar space within academic and national life. Economists deal with…
What Is Ancient Philosophy?
According to Pierre Hadot, a prominent historian of ancient thought and professor emeritus at the CollËge de…
Scandal Time: A Palpable Change
There is, as of this writing, something of a lull in the storms of crisis that have…
Meat-and-Potato Catholics
(The following report is submitted by our ubiquitous correspondent George Weigel.) Outraged commentary quickly followed Bishop Timothy…
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Real Ethics: Rethinking the Foundations of Morality By John Rist. Cambridge University Press. 295 pp. $23 paper.…
Newman on the Personal
There immediately follows a piece of vintage Newmanian satire. He imagines the division of mind that is…
Poetry
Like the weary sailor, the refugee from wreck and storm, who escapes half-dead, and then, in terror,…
It Is Not a “Catholic Thing”
During what may come to be called the Great Lenten Humiliation of 2002, it seemed that every…
Homosexuality and Abuse
A reader in Princeton, New Jersey, says we are “pandering to anti-Catholic hysteria” by even paying attention…
Purgatory for Everyone
A few years ago, the journalist Philip Nobile wrote an article near the first anniversary of the…
Feathers of Scandal
The story is told of St. Philip Neri (1515–1595) that he gave a most unusual penance to…
