The Pope, Same-Sex Blessings, and Protestants
by Carl R. TruemanThe shenanigans of the pope will put pressure on Protestants as well as Catholics. Continue Reading »
Praying for Our Country with John Carroll
by George WeigelA regular recitation of John Carroll’s eloquent prayer might be one small step toward the regeneration of the American spirit in the Year of Our Lord 2024. Continue Reading »
The Cost of “Making a Mess”
by Charles J. ChaputFiducia Supplicans doesn't change Church teaching on marriage, but it does seem to change Church teaching on the sinfulness of same-sex activity. Continue Reading »
Rainbow Is Thy Fame
by Mary Frances MylerFr. John Jenkins presided over the rapid enactment of the sexual revolution during his tenure as president of the University of Notre Dame. Continue Reading »
German Catholicism: On the Brink or at the Cutting Edge?
by George WeigelGerman Catholicism may not be regarded in certain Roman circles as being “on the brink” so much as “at the cutting edge.” Continue Reading »
A Voice of Sanity
by R. R. RenoA deeper obedience to God’s will makes life richer, fuller, and more fruitful. It’s a simple truth that our age has forgotten. Continue Reading »
Books for Christmas 2023
by George WeigelThis annual column on Christmas gift books that will inspire, entertain, inform, or all of the above includes oldies-but-still-goodies as well as newer releases. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousI very much enjoyed Armin Rosen’s essay about the Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (“Tarkovksy’s Sublime Terror,” October 2023), but I’m afraid he has made an error of fact about Tarkovsky’s film Nostalghia. Rosen says the protagonist, Andrei Gorchakov, “swallows poison and then . . . . Continue Reading »
The New Agnosticism
by Tom HineyIn an interview given to The Tablet in 1989, two years before he died, Graham Greene described himself as “a Catholic agnostic” and added that there were two things keeping him from losing his faith altogether. The first was the moment in the Fourth Gospel when Peter and John ran to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Church’s Oligarch
by Martin GramlingMarie de Vignerot, the Duchess of Aiguillon, outmaneuvered popes and overawed princes; she counseled kings and steered the state; she managed and invested a colossal fortune, with which she raised hospitals, freed slaves, and flung missions to the far corners of the earth; she negotiated treaties, . . . . Continue Reading »
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