Rupture by Stealth?
by George WeigelCan the truths of revelation, mediated through two millennia of tradition, be modified by contemporary human experience and sensibility? Continue Reading »
The Bishops, the Poor, and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development
by Jayd HenricksThe USCCB need to seriously consider the value of continuing the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Continue Reading »
PaPa Pete’s Patriarchy
by Kevin D. RobertsProgressives were wrong about the nature of patriarchy and its relationship to the American way of life. Continue Reading »
Dignitas Infinita Is a Muddled Failure
by Mark ShiffmanDignitas Infinita's weakness as a magisterial document is that it is insufficiently clarifying to serve as a teaching. Continue Reading »
Dignitas Infinita Is a Muddled Failure
by Mark ShiffmanDignitas Infinita's weakness as a magisterial document is that it is insufficiently clarifying to serve as a teaching. Continue Reading »
Faithful and Invisible
by Robert A. SiricoOn December 18, 2023, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the declaration Fiducia Supplicans, which granted permission for Catholic priests to bestow blessings upon couples in “irregular situations” and same-sex couples. Discussions surrounding the meaning and implications of . . . . Continue Reading »
The End of Prestige
by James F. KeatingFor most of the Church’s history in the United States, Catholics have sought to demonstrate to their often suspicious neighbors the possibility of being a faithful Catholic and a patriotic American. This has been no easy task, given the modern and Protestant character of the nation’s founding . . . . Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by VariousIf Famous Jewish Sports Legends is the leaflet in the punchline of a joke about “light reading” in the movie Airplane!, and Jewish Nobel Prize Winners would be a tome, Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik’s Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship is . . . . Continue Reading »
Diagnosing Disaster
by R. R. Reno“Why Did We Destroy Europe?” It’s an arresting title, chosen by Michael Polanyi for a 1970 essay that looks back on the conflagrations that consumed Europe between 1914 and 1945. (The essay can be found in Society, Economics & Philosophy, a posthumous volume of selected papers by . . . . Continue Reading »
Stay in My Heart
by Valerie StiversOn a spring day seven years ago I was driving across Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn feeling unusually right with the world. I felt peaceful and uplifted because I had, a few days before, settled in my mind a difficult, painful question: I would eventually leave my husband. We had children . . . . Continue Reading »
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