In the early decades of the twenty-first century, historians will say, the Church sought a new way of operating that would allow it to travel into a new era.
The work of Louis Bouyer—one of the twentieth century’s greatest theologians—illuminates the full Christological richness of the Second Vatican Council.
The testimonies of witnesses to impossible events vivify the past. They allow us a glimpse of the world as some of those who lived long ago actually saw it.
“Happily, Helsinki is not all geopolitical excitement. It is also lumberingly omnipresent trams, for which I quickly come to feel something close to love.”
Trump’s entire project is to overturn the sexual and civil-rights revolutions. Jeff Sharlet’s new book suggests Trump has a whole army ready to help him.
The writing of Wilfrid Sheed offers a rare kind of euphoria: a sense that he is determined to give the reader as much amusement as he had writing the piece.
There is an obvious tension between how to be “successful” on social media and how to represent the Catholic faith. Why is the Vatican ignoring this fact?
Beyond his many accomplishments as a theologian and public intellectual, Tim Keller ultimately triumphed as a pastor—as a man who shared the good news with kindness.
Birth is one of humanity’s most under-explored subjects. Minimizing birth diminishes one of the greatest powers humans have had: the creation of life itself.
Reading ‘Pacem in Terris’ today, when the U.S. has its second Catholic president, reveals how politically impotent Catholics and the papacy have become since then.
For those of us who have a visceral objection to Confederate Memorial Day, how should we engage a worldview that embraces the mythology of the Lost Cause?
For filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, Pope Francis is a revolutionary, a man who calls on us to imagine a better world. But being a revolutionary comes with loneliness.
By targeting Msgr. Rolando José Álvarez, Daniel Ortega thought that he was ridding himself of a meddlesome priest. Instead, he may have created a martyr.
