Essay
The Easter Triduum and Three Essentials
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son […]
Features
Essay
Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part Two
Editor’s note: You can read Part One of this essay here. IV The best way to describe how matrimony and the family animate Leo’s magisterial approach to the social question is to speak of their […]
Features
Opinion: Does God hear the prayers of warmongers?
Many are abuzz about Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday homily. In order to provide some context, let’s consider what Pete Hegseth prayed at the Pentagon last Wednesday, March 25th. In leading a Pentagon Christian service, […]
Essay
Holy Week in Song and Verse
When I was confirmed in the Church during graduate school, I would not have said, as many other converts do, that my conversion was initiated by the beauty of Catholic art and music. To be […]
Essay
Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part One
Editor’s note: The following piece is the first part of a two-part essay. I In 1846, John Henry Newman traveled to Rome to see if he could arrange to undertake seminary studies for the Catholic priesthood. […]
Features
Africa’s second exodus
When reports confirmed that thousands of young Africans had been lured into fighting for Russia in its war on Ukraine, the world reacted with shock and outrage. For Fr. Augustine Anwuchie, however, it was not […]
Analysis
A Question of Perspective: Who Gets Fired and Why?
It has been ranked “as among the most significant developments in moral theology in the past fifty years.” This was how the late Fr. Richard McCormick described Catholic University of America’s decision in 1988 to […]
Features
The Left’s cancellation of Cesar Chavez looks bad either way
Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared in AMAC’s “Newsline” and is reposted here with kind permission Though the power of the #MeToo movement peaked long ago, the Left’s cancellation machine kicked into gear this past […]
Essay
Flannery O’Connor’s “both/and” vision of reality
In the wake of Flannery O’Connor’s death on March 25, 1965, the Trappist monk and spiritual writer Thomas Merton said, “When I read Flannery O’Connor, I do not think of Hemingway, or Katherine Anne Porter, […]
Books
Introducing Communio Theology: An interview with Tracey Rowland
Tracey Rowland holds the St. John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame (Australia). She received her PhD from the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, and her STL and STD […]