Post-Pentecostal Depression

by Robert P. Imbelli

We need festal time, to express our full joy at the coming of the Holy Spirit. Continue Reading »

6 Jun 2017

Pope Francis’s Dichotomies

by Paul Seaton

Pope Francis’s thought involves a series of dichotomies: North-South, imperial-populist, ideological-historical, abstract-concrete, and so on. Rourke shows in detail the intellectual formation that gave rise to this eccentric version of the social magisterium. Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

Watching George Pell

by Philippa Martyr

In a world where too many bishops have failed us in ways too terrible to mention, George Pell has yet to do so. Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

The Last Great Homilist

by Matthew Walther

Ronald Knox:A Man for All Seasons edited by francesca bugliani knox pontifical institute of medieval studies, 416 pages, $65 The greatest writer of English prose in the last century, P. G. Wodehouse excepted, was not Lytton Strachey or Logan Pearsall Smith or the E. M. Forster of Pharos and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

Catholic Lite and Europe’s Demographic Suicide

by George Weigel

When an entire continent—healthier, wealthier, and more secure than ever before—deliberately chooses sterility, the most basic cause for that must lie in the realm of the human spirit, in a certain souring about the very mystery of being.  Continue Reading »

24 May 2017

Burying Benedict

by Matthew Schmitz

Though Benedict is still living, Francis is trying to bury him. Continue Reading »

22 May 2017

The Challenge of Fatima

by William Doino Jr.

If there were any doubts about the enduring power of Fatima, Pope Francis has put them to bed. Continue Reading »

22 May 2017

Tracing Church History through Old Newspapers

by K. E. Colombini

Browsing the Catholic News Archive, you’ll notice how much things have changed—and not always for the better. Continue Reading »

18 May 2017

A Hillarian Lesson for Church Leaders

by George Weigel

Hillary Clinton still doesn’t get that she was the reason she lost. Continue Reading »

17 May 2017

With Cardinal Sarah, the Liturgy Is in Good Hands

by Benedict XVI

Cardinal Sarah teaches us silence—being silent with Jesus, true inner stillness, and in just this way he helps us to grasp the word of the Lord anew. Continue Reading »

17 May 2017