Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A New Kind of Science
One should hesitate to review a book that threatens pulling a muscle just by lifting it. Apart…
How Not To Overturn Roe v. Wade
An aside in Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent article, “God’s Justice and Ours” ( FT , May), provides…
Terrorists Behind Bars
It is a telling—and alarming—sign that following September 11, 2001 the two failed terror attacks involved people…
Fatherhood, 2002
I’m a new man. I’ve just slept through the night for the first time in weeks because…
Feeling Moral
Luke! Trust your feelings!” As we know, Luke does what he is told, and the galaxy is…
Dakota Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving was always tense while I was growing up, and I don’t know why. Christmas, now”Christmas was…
Proselytizing for Tolerance
Part I: Paul J. Griffiths Proselytism is a topic enjoying renewed attention in recent years. This is…
Mr. Wills for the Prosecution
In the dock are Pope John Paul II and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for…
The Hour of the Laity
Throughout the twentieth century, leaders of the Catholic Church implored lay men and women with increasing urgency…
The Implosion of American Federalism
Next to the exponential growth of government itself, the most noteworthy feature of American political institutions in…
Political Blasphemy
It lasted but a moment, but while it lasted it was political theater to be relished. The…
Was Reinhold Niebuhr a Christian?
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), dubbed “America’s theologian” by the mid-twentieth-century media, had a host of critics during his…
Russians and Catholics
To feel the full historical weight of Russian attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church one should see…
The Last Respectable Prejudice
Does anti-Catholicism exist? Yes it does. Can we define it? Yes we can. It’s repugnance for things…
Truth, Beauty & the American Way
Ever since the World Trade Center was destroyed, the question of what to do with the site…
