Theology

Catholic social teaching is Catholic moral teaching; Catholic moral teaching includes Catholic social teaching. It is a…

I have watched with keen interest the debates unfolding around the Revoice Conference, which takes place in…

Almost a quarter-century ago, Fr. Jay Scott Newman, back in Rome to finish a graduate degree after…

As Western society continues its relentless purge of the pre-political, the body count keeps mounting. Yesterday’s harmless…

A Brezhnev-era joke asked whether it was a crime to say that the party chairman was an idiot.…

The national consensus seems to be that more is better. Hamburgers? Make them gargantuan, to the point…

It has become something of a ritual among legal junkies and Supreme Court watchers: After nine months…

In the old days, an unwritten understanding, honored by presidents of both political parties, had it that…

This article contains spoilers for the film Hereditary. In his preface to Hostage to the Devil, Malachi Martin…

You’re the best! First Things readers are intellectually engaged, morally and religiously committed, and very generous. We…

A schism seems to be emerging among Evangelicals, one that may be fateful for the future role…

The Church’s custom of reading virtually all of the Acts of the Apostles at daily Mass during…

The most obvious things can elude us because they’re just too close. We’re like the fish in the…

With hundreds of bishops coming to the Vatican for a synod in October 2001, I decided to…

Religious films rarely receive critical acclaim these days, but a recent exception is Paul Schrader’s First Reformed—a…