Catholicism

The Civil Marriage Business

When American bishops of the Catholic Church meet next week, the Church's obligation to regulate marriage may be up for debate.
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9 Jun 2017

Waiting for Vatican Reform

by Marco Tosatti

Four years into Francis's pontificate, promised reform efforts remain unimpressive.
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7 Jun 2017

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 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