Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

A Public Church, not a Partisan Church

George Weigel

WARSAW. The temptation to ally the Church with a particular political party and its program is a…

Mary, Seat of Wisdom

R. R. Reno

The angel of the Lord came to Mary, and the power of the Most High overshadowed her.…

James Matthew Wilson’s Religious Vision

Mark Bauerlein

See, from the hall, the sad men sit,       The television on, but theirEyes turned from…

The Theology of Hope

Josef Seifert

Austrian Catholic philosopher Josef Seifert is former Dietrich von Hildebrand Chair of Realist Phenomenology at the International Academy…

Educating For Liberty

Peter J. Leithart

Educate” derives from the Latin educare, “to lead out.” All education promises an exodus from the darkness…

Master of Intricate Forms

A. M. Juster

Dana Gioia once outlined the decline of American Catholic writing in the pages of First Things: Stated…

John Paul II, Youth Minister

George Weigel

Pole that he was, Karol Wojtyła had a well developed sense of historical irony. So from his…

In Persona Christi Capitis

Jonathan Mitchican

In the wake of the McCarrick revelations and the release of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, I…

Paul VI and the Canonization of Vatican II

Jake Neu

On October 14, 2018, Pope Francis will canonize Pope Paul VI as the 82nd saint among the…

Letters From the Synod-2018: #8

Xavier Rynne II

COMMENTARY       ANNOUNCING THE GOOD NEWS, URGENTLY The last decade of the pontificate of Pope Paul…

Steve Bannon’s European Movement

Alessandra Bocchi

Is Europe’s new populist movement exclusively a rightwing phenomenon, or does it seek to unite anti-establishment forces…

The Catholic Crisis, In Perspective

George Weigel

Perspective is at least as important when reading the signs of the times as it is in…

Reproductive Injustice

Charles C. Camosy

Trust Women:A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justiceby rebecca todd petersbeacon, 248 pages, $27.95 In Trust Women, Rebecca…

A Loving Ambivalence

Helen Andrews

The Controversy of Valladolid of 1550 was one of the great dramatic set pieces of the Spanish…

Letters From the Synod-2018: #4

Xavier Rynne II

COMMENTARY SOPHIE SCHOLL, JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, AND THE SYNOD It would be interesting to know how many of…