History
Women and the Protestant Reformation
Luther and the Reformers went to war against the evangelical counsels as ideals and as the core of a vowed, religious life. Every woman—it was […]
Features
Analysis
A Critique of Faggioli’s interpretation of early Ratzinger’s view of Scripture, Tradition, and Authority
Massimo Faggioli’s naïve biblicism cannot account for different levels of authoritative Church teachings in Catholicism, with some being foundational, irreformable, and definitive, and others being […]
Features
Cardinal Koch: “The commemoration of the Reformation reminded us of what unites us”
“In the commemoration of the Reformation,” says the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, “the emphasis was above all on what we […]
Books
Was Hitler a Christian, an atheist, or neither?
A new book takes a look at the controversial—and complicated—issue of the religious views of Adolf Hitler. […]
Essay
Which Reformation? What reform?
In reality, there were multiple, contending reformations in play in the first centuries of modernity. […]
Features
When evil triumphed: The 100th anniversary of Russia’s October Revolution
The centenary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 should be an occasion for understanding Marxism’s amoral and pseudo-religious nature. […]
Analysis
Liturgy, Authority, and Postmodernity
As our self-consciously modern liturgical rites approach their fiftieth birthdays we would do well not to cling to them uncritically. Nor can we follow postmodernity […]
Analysis
On capital punishment, even the pope’s defenders are confused
There simply is no way to make an absolute condemnation of capital punishment consistent with past scriptural and papal teaching. The only way out of […]
Features
From Bukowski to Benedict
The cinema was once the light in which I sought purpose and escape. And then I was issued a challenge I could not escape: To […]
Interview
The contemplative nuns who live “at the heart” of the Church
The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration are living a secluded monastic life in the middle of the Arizona desert. […]