Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

How Not To Overturn Roe v. Wade

Paul Benjamin Linton

An aside in Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent article, “God’s Justice and Ours” ( FT , May), provides…

Terrorists Behind Bars

Charles W. Colson

It is a telling—and alarming—sign that following September 11, 2001 the two failed terror attacks involved people…

Fatherhood, 2002

Damon Linker

I’m a new man. I’ve just slept through the night for the first time in weeks because…

Feeling Moral

J. Budziszewski

Luke! Trust your feelings!” As we know, Luke does what he is told, and the galaxy is…

Dakota Thanksgiving

Joseph Bottum

Thanksgiving was always tense while I was growing up, and I don’t know why. Christmas, now”Christmas was…

Proselytizing for Tolerance

Paul J. Griffiths and Jean Bethke Elshtain

Part I: Paul J. Griffiths Proselytism is a topic enjoying renewed attention in recent years. This is…

Mr. Wills for the Prosecution

Richard John Neuhaus

In the dock are Pope John Paul II and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for…

The Hour of the Laity

Mary Ann Glendon

Throughout the twentieth century, leaders of the Catholic Church implored lay men and women with increasing urgency…

The Implosion of American Federalism

Michael M. Uhlmann

Next to the exponential growth of government itself, the most noteworthy feature of American political institutions in…

Was Reinhold Niebuhr a Christian?

Gabriel Fackre

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), dubbed “America’s theologian” by the mid-twentieth-century media, had a host of critics during his…

Russians and Catholics

Lawrence Uzzell

To feel the full historical weight of Russian attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church one should see…

The Last Respectable Prejudice

Kenneth L. Woodward

Does anti-Catholicism exist? Yes it does. Can we define it? Yes we can. It’s repugnance for things…

Truth, Beauty & the American Way

Alicia Mosier

Ever since the World Trade Center was destroyed, the question of what to do with the site…

Whatever Happened to Sociology?

Peter L. Berger

The title question has been asked frequently in recent years, both within and outside the field. I…

Antonin Scalia and His Critics: The Church, the Courts, and the Death Penalty

Various

In his article “God’s Justice and Ours” (FT, May), Justice Antonin Scalia states correctly, I believe, that…