Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The One True Church
Richard John Neuhaus died on January 8, 2009, at the age of seventy-two—a great loss to the…
My Personal Strunk and White
Growing up a Catholic boy in suburban South Jersey, I knew my share of priests. They were…
The Rockford Raid
Longtime First Things readers have heard, no doubt, about the “Rockford Raid.” How, on the morning of…
Talkin’ ‘bout My Generation
Richard John Neuhaus first came into my life at a seminar run by the Carnegie Council on…
In Refusal of Politics
Sapphics for Richard John Neuhaus If I have seen geese low on the east horizon, seen the…
Richard’s Book Club
Some virtues may be learned, others are inborn. Punctuality, for example, can be taught, at least in…
Fishers of Men
My memories of Fr. Richard go back to his beginning and before. He was the second son…
Here He Stood
A year after Richard John Neuhaus left Martin Luther’s Wittenberg for St. Peter’s Rome, he was interviewed…
He Threw It All Away
In the early 1970s, Lutheran pastor Richard John Neuhaus was poised to become the nation’s next great…
The Way, the Truth, and Philip Jenkins
Woody Allen used to joke that he had been kicked out of college for cheating on an…
Surprised by Calvin
In his Letters to Malcolm, C.S. Lewis reminds his fictitious friend about an argument the two of…
Church Ladies
Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement by mary j. henold university…
A Campaign of Narratives
The conventional Beltway wisdom on the 2008 presidential election was summed up, unsurprisingly, by David Broder in…
Briefly Noted 226
Abortion Under State Constitutions by Paul Benjamin Linton Carolina Academic , 610 pages, $75 As Rodney Dangerfield…
While Europe Slept
In the great cathedrals in Europe, a few people—usually elderly women—can be found at worship. Everybody else…
