Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Reasonable Doubts About Pell’s Conviction

Julia Yost

Catholics and non-Catholics around the world are justly outraged by the crimes and coverups of the Church’s…

Beloved Physician

Peter J. Leithart

My father, Dr. Paul W. Leithart, died at his beloved home on Wednesday morning, May 29, 2019,…

Pope Francis Forgets

Dan Hitchens

Did Pope Francis know? Was he told, five years before the world found out, that the powerful…

Eastern Catholics and the Universal Church

George Weigel

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia celebrated the enthronement of its new Metropolitan-Archbishop, Borys Gudziak, on…

Restoring, and strengthening, episcopal credibility

George Weigel

Pope Francis’s recent motu proprio on sexual abuse, Vos estis lux mundi (You Are the Light of…

Matteo Salvini and the Bishops

Kishore Jayabalan

If mixing religion and politics is a tricky affair, keeping them separate is nearly impossible. Matteo Salvini,…

Backing into Relativism

Hadley Arkes

We have just come through a year with the Supreme Court in which the defenders of religious…

Grace, Continued

Patricia Snow

Then, for three years, I traveled wherever Grace traveled. ­Wherever she went, I went, and after she…

A Nation of Americans

Matthew Schmitz

America is a nation of immigrants. America has always been a nation of immigrants. Or so we…

Broken Family, Broken Country

John Waters

My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son’s Search For Homeby michael brendan doughertysentinel, 223 pages, $24…

Fashioning a Walking Stick

Charles Southerland

I cut a hawthorn, stripped the outer barkwhich left five shades of red to contemplate.The first, as…

Drugged

Alison Brackenbury

It is warmth which floods you,the plane tree, peeling, new, the bud, the tingled lips,bark smooth to…

Letters

Various

De Gaulle In “A Certain Idea of France” (April), Peter Hitchens goes too far when he concludes…

An Acceptable Prejudice

Elizabeth Corey

Contemporary universities are doing their best to eradicate prejudice and bias. Yet one remaining prejudice—against white men—is…

The Fusionism That Failed

Ben Sixsmith

Understanding the upheavals of American conservatism requires the study of its ­history—in particular, the fortunes of Frank…