Theology

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We Found Our Joy in Latin

Matthew Schmitz

Edwin Mary Akaedu walks with a cane in one hand and a rosary in the other as…

Pope Francis on the Development of Doctrine

P. J. Smith

On October 11, Pope Francis addressed a conference sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of…

Our Ancient Debt to Alcuin

John Duggan

If your intentions are carried out, it may be that a new Athens will arise in France…

On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

Charles J. Chaput

Later this month, Western Christians will celebrate or grieve, or some mix of both, an awkwardly shared…

The Catechism of the Catholic Church at 25

George Weigel

John Paul II called the Extraordinary Synod of 1985 to assess what had gone right and what…

Thomas Joseph White Teaches Catholicism

Mary Eberstadt

First Things will host Fr. Thomas Joseph White for a reception and discussion of The Light of…

The Evangelical Future Is Mestizo

Dale M. Coulter

New data released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Pew Research Center have given…

Disciples Are Made in the Home

Rebekah Curtis

Demography, Culture, and the Decline of America’s Christian Denominations by george hawleylexington books, 238 pages, $95.00 It’s no…

The Persecution of Orthodoxy

Josef Seifert

If one considers the transformation of Plato’s Academy, champion of eternal truth, into a center of radical…

Evaluating the World’s Religions

Francesca Aran Murphy

The founders of the great, durable religions of the world were not philosophers. The intuitions that our…

The Filial Correction Online

P. J. Smith

A group of more than sixty Catholic theologians and clergy, including some well-known traditionalist writers and scholars,…

A Less Corrupt Term

Marc O. DeGirolami

In these unusually turbulent times for the presidency and Congress, the Supreme Court’s latest term stands out…

Academic Dishonesty Policy

Shanna Powlus Wheeler

Don’t borrow another’s thoughtwithout citation. Don’t filchanother writer’s diction,assuming I’m deaf to styleand tone—elements I teach.Remember, if…

Waugh on the Merits

Paul V. Mankowski

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisitedby philip eadehenry holt, 432 pages, $32 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was…

The Iron Law of Shortsightedness

Shalom Carmy

Climate activists argue that the effects of climate change are too immense to be remedied by individual…