Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Stubborn Givenness
The Apostolic Exhortation on the Family, Amoris Laetitia, brings into the open a disturbing trend in this…
Sure, Tell Peter Too
The message the women heard from the “young man” is found in St. Mark (16:5-8). Mary Magdalene,…
To Render the Deeds of Mercy
A version of the following talk was given at the Shelbourne Easter Seminar on March 29, 2015.…
The Case Against Polygamy
Is polygamy the next same-sex marriage? Fundamentalist Mormons, Muslims, and others argue that federal and state statutes…
The Good of Religious Pluralism
Pluralism is often perceived as a threat to faith, associated with relativism and a loss of religious…
Repurposing Europe
For the Frenchmen who lived through World War II, the defining event of their lives was quintessentially…
Orwell and Contraception
I n 1954, four years after George Orwell’s premature death from tuberculosis, his friend Christopher Hollis recalled:…
Letters—April 2016
Culture I recently read Jonathan Price’s “Culture by Subtraction” (February) and thoroughly enjoyed it—not least because it…
Skiffling Shuffling Skittering Scuffling
As I am sitting at the stoplight under the maple and oak and cedar trees / I…
Rome’s Resistance
Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitlerby mark rieblingbasic, 375 pages, $29.99 During the Second…
Grace’s Perfections
Paul and the Giftby john m. g. barclayeerdmans, 672 pages, $70 W ith the publication of E.…
Russian Brahmin
Laurusby eugene vodolazkintranslated by lisa haydenoneworld, 384 pages, $24.99 Eugene Vodolazkin’s novel Laurus has been much praised,…
The Visions of St. Faustina
In 1923 a teenager named Helena Kowalska attended a dance in Lodz, Poland. While she danced that…
Things That Can’t Change
When the Second Vatican Council was putting the finishing touches on one of its key documents, the…
The Tragedy of the Resurrection
On Friday night (I would say ‘Good Friday’ but, as First Things’ triumphalist Protestant—to use Rusty Reno’s…
