History
Dorothy Day’s houses of formation
It wasn’t so much the look of poverty as she saw it a century ago in the teeming tenements of New York that outraged Dorothy Day as it was the smell. Many years later in […]
Features
Analysis
“Amoris Laetitia” and Vatican II’s Project of Inculturation
Pope St. John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council amid great optimism. Pope John called for aggiornamento and an opening of the windows of the Church, but we know that the 1960s were not a time of […]
Essay
Intolerance and evangelization: Thoughts on Cardinal Sarah at the National Prayer Breakfast
Cardinal Robert Sarah is one of the adornments of the Catholic Church, although it’s very unlikely that this man of faith, humor, intelligence, and profound humility would appreciate my putting it that way. His 2015 […]
Film & Music
Why “Last Days in the Desert” is so boring
With his latest film, Last Days in the Desert, Rodrigo Garcia has accomplished something truly remarkable. He has taken a portion of the life of the single most compelling person who has ever lived and turned it […]
Editorial
“Christ is risen!”: The Big Bang within Time and Space
A few months ago, while writing Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead?, I was able to watch the movie Risen, which releases today on DVD. It was fortuitous as the film captures, in cinematic […]
Books
Bishop Barron and the Vibrant Paradoxes of the Catholic Faith
“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Bishop […]
Analysis
Pope Francis, Populism, and the Agony of Latin America
Venezuela is now in an advanced state of political and economic collapse. Such is the fruit of seventeen years of the “21st century socialism” pioneered by Hugo Chávez and pursued by his successor Nicolás Maduro. […]
Essay
Baby Bison and the Danger of “Misplaced Concern”
On May 9th at Yellowstone National Park, a bison calf was euthanized. The reason? A tourist, concerned about the welfare of the calf in the cold temperatures, had put it in her SUV. The calf […]
Interview
The man behind Catholic U’s largest donation ever
The Catholic University of America recently announced that it received a donation of $15 million—the largest single donation in school history—to assist with the operational needs of the School of Business and Economics and related […]
Essay
Supreme Court Avoids the Issue, Little Sisters Get a Win. Now what?
In a highly unusual move, the Supreme Court passed off the case of Zubic v. Burwell like a hot potato. It passed the case to the lower federal appeals courts. The high court, short by […]