Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Affirming and Celebrating Humanae Vitae
July 25 is the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical on the integrity of…
Promoting Predators
What did the American bishops know, and when did they know it? This is the question everyone…
The Problem of Sexually Active Priests
A “credible and substantiated” allegation of sexual abuse of a minor against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, new details…
What Bibi and Orban Can Shake On
If a geopolitical observer had predicted a decade ago that Israel and Saudi Arabia would one day…
Poland’s Christian Migrants
Across the West, an electoral backlash against large-scale immigration has contributed to the successes of populist movements…
State of the Nation
Twenty years ago, for the July/August 1998 issue of Books & Culture, I wrote a column titled…
Rejuvenation at Trinity Church
Trinity Church on Wall Street is in the middle of a “rejuvenation” project — so naturally most…
Why We Need Loome Theological Booksellers
It’s not typical to stumble into a small-town bookstore and be greeted by the sounds of Gregorian…
Re-Evangelizing Law
In the decades since 1973, abortion law has morphed into a First Amendment issue. Decisive arguments turn…
Unity, Truth, and Catholic Social Thought
Catholic social teaching is Catholic moral teaching; Catholic moral teaching includes Catholic social teaching. It is a…
Lust and Augustine
I have watched with keen interest the debates unfolding around the Revoice Conference, which takes place in…
A Pastor in Full
Almost a quarter-century ago, Fr. Jay Scott Newman, back in Rome to finish a graduate degree after…
Common Prayer, or Predictable Politics?
As Western society continues its relentless purge of the pre-political, the body count keeps mounting. Yesterday’s harmless…
The Real Modern Anti-Semitism
A Brezhnev-era joke asked whether it was a crime to say that the party chairman was an idiot.…
Giving Your Testimony
The national consensus seems to be that more is better. Hamburgers? Make them gargantuan, to the point…
