Pope Pius XII is a towering figure in the history of the Church, as well as global politics, in the twentieth century. His papacy lasted from 1939 to 1958, so he was pope during the […]
It was the late summer of 2010. I was a Protestant seminary student, but I had been studying (and disputing) various claims made by the Catholic Church, precipitated by the recent conversion of one of […]
Many readers of Karl Keating’s 1054 and All That: A Lighthearted History of the Catholic Church might be tempted to see the book as little more than an amusing chronology of the Church history no […]
I The other day, I was reading Eugenio Montale’s introduction to Allen Mandlebaum’s translation of The Divine Comedy and I was struck by the wisdom of something the modern Italian poet said, and it was […]
In the spring of 1945, as a humiliated Germany was being defeated by the Allies, two of the finest German intellectuals of the postwar era – Günter Grass and Joseph Ratzinger – apparently met in […]
Benedict XVI holds his final general audience, Feb. 27, 2013. / Mazur/www.thepapalvisit.org.uk (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI prompted his former students and other Catholi… […]
The heavenly art of the Sistine Chapel masks a human competition that produced the greatest creative work in history, according to a new book from a leading Italian Renaissance scholar. The walls of the small […]
George Weigel’s new book To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II (Basic Books, 2022) is a tour de force in its study of the hermeneutics—that is, the manner of interpretation—of the Second […]
Less than ten years after Anglican clergyman John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism, Pope Pius IX in 1854 issued the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, which declared, as Catholic dogma, that Mary, by God’s grace, was […]
What is God like? Let us look at His creation and actions. He could have created just “tree,” but instead He created countless kinds of trees: palm, spruce, balsam fir, zelkova. And He could have […]
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