Theology
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Will the Dallas Charter Update Finally Give Priests Due Process?
At their Florida meeting on June 10–12, the American Catholic bishops will vote on proposed revisions to…
The Genesis of Economics
We live, writes Italian economist Luigino Bruni in his The Economy of Salvation, in an exhausted age…
The Church of Ratzinger
In this episode, Sam Zeno Conedera joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about…
Pelvic Theology, Pelvic Justice
In a recent New York Times guest essay, Catholic writer David Gibson praised Pope Leo for moving…
Can These Bones Live?
The Saturday after Easter, on a cloudless morning, I fell and shattered my left elbow while taking…
Cultural Christianity’s Ambivalence
The question of what to do with our Christian inheritance—what we call “cultural Christianity”—has become unavoidable. Cultural…
In Magnifica Humanitas, Leo Defends the Human Person
“What is man that thou art mindful of him?”—Psalm 8:4 Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas,…
The Peace We Can Make
Repetition, it’s said, can be the mother of learning. So, in light of recent Catholic debates about…
Magnifica Humanitas, a Missed Opportunity?
At nearly 43,000 words, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in…
A Boomer, But An Augustinian: On Magnifica Humanitas
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, begins…
Why I Became Orthodox
Bulbous onion domes topped the Corinthian columns, and baroque stucco architraves lit up the drowsy city toward…
Embodying Spirit
The Bible figures the Spirit as breath, wind, smoke, and flame. He blows where he will, circulates…
Confession Isn’t Therapy
Frequent confession was once normal—monthly, biweekly, or even weekly. But it became rarer among Catholics formed from…
The Truth About Christian Hospitality
The world has changed and the ground has shifted under us. All that is solid melts into…
The German Gambit
Reinhard Cardinal Marx stated recently that the German bishops intend to issue a formal liturgical blessing for…
