Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Maritain’s True Humanism
In the course of his long life, French philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) adopted a series of different…
The Bishops and Reform Delayed
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?Come to my arms, my beamish boy!O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”He chortled…
Just War, As It Was and Is
The just war tradition came into being during the Middle Ages as a way of thinking about…
The Vatican vs. “Americanism”
John Allen has written an exceedingly valuable book. It is titled All the Pope’s Men: The Inside…
The Love of Saint Thérèse
The Pope leaned toward her, so that “their faces nearly touched,” and Thérèse hurriedly whispered her desire…
While We’re At It
• When I spoke at ceremonies marking the inauguration of Robert Sloan as president of Baylor University…
Anti-Semitism and False Alarms
Although repercussions may extend far into the future, we can now get a measure of critical distance…
To Be American
It hardly seems like all of eight years ago that Samuel P. Huntington gave us The Clash…
Low Expectations and Catholic Preaching
Among all the qualities Protestants look for in their clergy, the one consistently rated highest is that…
The Bishops Get Their Report Card
On January 6, as scheduled, the bishops conference (USCCB) released the first report on compliance with the…
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
Few, if any, other theologians could have written The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian…
Protestants, Catholics, and Mary
In 1937 a group of Catholic and Protestant theologians, the latter being mainly Reformed and Lutheran, launched…
Catholicism as the Other
Martin Scorsese’s recent film The Gangs of New York takes us back to a time when religion,…
“Catholic Sectarianism”
Intelligent and good people can end up taking wrongheaded positions, which is a point underscored by Paul…
“This Hapless Bench”
Last month I commented on the not very secret “secret meeting” between some bishops and a largeish…
