Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
This Catholic Moment
The current crisis in the global Church is not the worst crisis in Catholic history, but it…
The New American Right
What, exactly, do you want?” Liberal critics put the question to the post-fusionist American right in various…
The Outsider
I want to read something to you. I want you to really listen to this.” Rush Limbaugh…
Christian Universalism and the Nation
Proposition #1: The Church is the agent of Christian universalism. Christianity requires no specific political form. It…
Goodbye to “So What?”
The case for American nationalism is clear. The United States is the most diverse nation on earth.…
Embarrassed by Our Nations
Among conservatives today there is an emerging confidence about the nation. But it remains a timid confidence,…
Nationalism, Conservatism, and the E.U.
Whether we really have been observing a resurgence of nationalism in Europe is not at all clear.…
Two False Newmans
On October 13, Pope Francis will declare John Henry Newman a saint. Catholics from around the world…
Statesmen and Technocrats
Proportional representation used to be blamed for the collapse of the Weimar Republic: Too much fragmentation crippled…
Of Cigarettes and Grace
The dramatic action of grace is rooted in Christology: Christ descended into the world and passed through the…
A German Attack on Christ’s Lordship
Half a millennium after the Reformation, Germans are making trouble again for the Roman Church. This time,…
Turning Sauls into Pauls
A third of the way through the Book of Acts, a man named Saul takes over the…
Balderdash on the Tiber
Today’s first reading is from an explication of the academic program of the reconfigured Pontifical John Paul…
Newman at the Amazon Synod
A spectre is haunting the preparations for next month’s Amazon Synod: the spectre of John Henry Newman,…
Newman’s University Today
Cardinal Dulles, a frequent contributor to First Things, presented this address to the Cardinal Newman Society on…
