Whence the Convert Problem?

by Marco Tosatti

The Church and her saints tell us that we are all converts—indeed, that we should repent and convert every day.  Continue Reading »

11 Aug 2017

A Church That Is A Home

by Matthew Schmitz

Conversion—not ecclesial nativism—is the American Catholic tradition. Continue Reading »

9 Aug 2017

They’re Confessors, Not “Culture-Warriors”

by George Weigel

A lesson for Catholics in the U. S. from a classic history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Continue Reading »

13 Sep 2016

The Myth of the Moderate Catholic

by William Doino Jr.

Any Catholic who rejects Catholic teaching, or who technically accepts it but minimizes it to the point of insignificance, is not a “moderate” Catholic but a dissenter, or one seeking approval from the world (a temptation Our Lord warns against)—and should be identified as such. Continue Reading »

29 Aug 2016

Joe Biden is Isaac Hecker’s Fault?

by George Weigel

What went wrong with the public life of American Catholics? How far back does the problem go? Continue Reading »

24 Aug 2016

Catholics Must Resist Ethno-Nationalism

by Brandon McGinley

The rightful place of the Catholic is always alongside the poor, the marginalized, the excluded—all the more so because Catholics have traditionally been overrepresented among the poor, the marginalized, and the excluded in American society. Continue Reading »

28 Jul 2016

Remembering Two Great Bishops

by George Weigel

We American Catholics are, in the main, notoriously uninterested in our own history. So it likely escaped the notice of many that December 3 marked the bicentenary of the death of John Carroll, one of the greatest who ever lived among us. The adjective “first” is applied to John Carroll more . . . . Continue Reading »

16 Dec 2015

Neoconservative Catholicism in America

by Patrick Garry

In this insightful, well-researched and thought-provoking book, Todd Scribner presents a compelling story of the development of neoconservative Catholic thought in the 1970s and 1980s. The story covers a wide spectrum of subjects, including church structure, secular political history, Catholic social thought, and public policy. Continue Reading »

2 Dec 2015

Converts and the Symphony of Truth

by George Weigel

If there is a thread running through these diverse personalities, it may be this: that men and women of intellect, culture and accomplishment have found in Catholicism what Blessed John Paul II called the “symphony of truth.” That rich and complex symphony, and the harmonies it offers, is an attractive, compelling and persuasive alternative to the fragmentation of modern and post-modern intellectual and cultural life, where little fits together and much is cacophony. Continue Reading »

11 Jan 2012

The Bishops in Council

by Timothy M. Dolan

Twenty-five years ago this month, Pope John Paul II made his first pastoral visit to the United States, meeting the American bishops in Chicago. In his address to them, the former university professor used a style that was both innovative and pedagogically effective: he quoted from an array of . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Apr 2005