“…the Church, in her teaching, life and worship, perpetuates and hands on to all generations all that she herself is, all that she believes.” — Dei Verbum, 8 In 1993, from August 10 to 15, World Youth […]
Recently, I was directed to an article by conservative Evangelical author and activist Katy Faust entitled “No Time for Friendly Fire: Why Catholics and Evangelicals Need Each Other Now More Than Ever.” I confess that […]
Of all nineteenth-century Catholic thinkers, John Henry Newman is the one who continues both to shape intellectual currents in modern Catholicism and offer an interesting dialogue partner to Protestants such as myself. While his patristic […]
The late Cardinal Pell was a larger-than-life figure known for his outspoken orthodoxy and bluntness, as well as for being infamously jailed and then dramatically exonerated by the Australian courts. But what was Pell like […]
In Carl R. Trueman’s most recent book, titled To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory From Marx to Marcuse (B&H Academic, 2024), the noted scholar and author hones in on the much-discussed but not always well-understood history, foundations, […]
Benjamin O’Brien is the author of The Proving Grounds: A Catholic on Ladder 17 (Ignatius Press, 2025), a memoir of a rookie firefighter who struggles to overcome the challenges of his dangerous job while growing in […]
My previous article on history and nationalism elicited far more responses than I had anticipated. What I saw simply as a window into one aspect of American Catholic intellectual life seems to have touched a […]
Sometime last century, at the Fisher House chaplaincy in Cambridge, the Dominican chaplain told a joke in his homily—it was the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola—about the difference between Jesuits and Dominicans. He explained […]
Pomp, Circumstance, and Unsolicited Advice (Ignatius Press, 2025) brings together two dozen commencement addresses and university lectures, given since the turn of the century, from George Weigel. These addresses and lectures, given in academic settings, […]
Many books and essays have looked at the many cultural, social, and historical aspects of the Sexual Revolution. But few have delved into the destruction and suffering caused by that revolution, and have provided a […]
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