Essay
Islam, Violence, and the Nature of God
Where and why Catholics agree—and disagree—with Muslims […]
Features
Features
Cardinal Sarah, “terrorism of thought,” and the fight for faith
In certain key respects the struggle between predominantly urban revolutionaries and predominantly rural Christians during French Revolution foreshadows the Blue-Red divide of our own time […]
Ecclesia et Civitas
Contemporary Tyranny and Catholic Social Doctrine
The current situation of growing soft totalitarianism is too recent and too disturbing for its implications for Catholic social action to have been adequately understood […]
Features
Two Englishmen whose lives were commentary on the question of conscience
For Thomas More, following his conscience led him to martyrdom; for John Henry Newman, following his conscience led him to become a Catholic. […]
Analysis
The Nashville Statement is part of an ecumenical “ecology of man”
The major theme of the Nashville Declaration, what the Catholic tradition calls an “ecological conversion,” is in complete accord with the Catechism of the Catholic […]
Essay
“Amoris Laetitia” and the chasm in modern moral theology
Can the apostolic exhortation help bridge the chasm that, since 1968, has divided moral theologians in matters of sexual morality? […]
Features
An Evangelical theologian responds to Fr. James Martin, S.J.
A consideration of Fr. Martin’s “seven ways” of responding to the Nashville Statement underscore the truncated gospel (or even anti-gospel) with which Martin operates. […]
Analysis
When some Christians affirm traditional moral teaching, other Christians freak out
The angry responses to the Nashville Statement reflect the sort of “moral therapeutic deism” that has increasingly dominated the public square in recent years. […]
Features
California’s first Catholic school sparks controversy by removing statues
San Anselmo, Calif., Aug 29, 2017 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Parents are concerned after a California Catholic school has removed several religious statues from its campus in an effort to be more inclusive of other faiths.
San Domenico School in San… […]
Essay
The legacy of Michael Novak (1933-2017), a man of Tradition
It is for his appraisal of the free market economy that the late Michael Novak is, and will probably continue to be, most known, praised, […]