Books
An Exile No More
The death of Father Richard John Neuhaus on January 8, 2009 from complications of cancer, less than a month after the death of his dear friend, Cardinal Avery Dulles, SJ, has left a large void […]
Features
Special Report
The Furor Festival
During January’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication incurred by the four bishops of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) whom Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre had illicitly consecrated […]
Special Report
Hoping for More
On December 12, 2008, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released Dignitas Personae (“The Dignity of the Person”), an “instruction on certain bioethical questions.” It was widely regarded as a sequel to Donum […]
Special Report
The Cross and the Stars
What do Worlds of If have to do with Jerusalem? Do Catholic writers have a place among the wizards of fantasy and the starships of science fiction? The very pervasiveness of fantasy and science fiction […]
Special Report
An Ocean Wide and Deep
It is now over a decade since ex-Anglicans streamed into the Catholic priesthood, following the 1992 decision of the Church of England to ordain women. Some observers predicted that this intake would cause problems, but […]
News
Growing Tensions
On June 4-7 an estimated 342 million Europeans will vote in elections for the European Parliament (EP). With 785 members representing all 27 Member States of the European Union (EU), the EP is the only […]
Essay
The Failure of Liberal Catholicism
No one has yet managed to transcend or synthesize the concepts “liberal” and “conservative,” however inadequate those words are for denoting religious beliefs. Conservative Catholics define themselves in terms of obedience to Church authority, acceptance […]
Special Report
A Gateway to the Faith
American Catholics of a certain age can remember The Baltimore Catechism—a concise, systematic presentation of the faith in questions and answers, which was published in carefully grade-specific editions for parochial schoolchildren. In the postconciliar years, […]
Special Report
The Arab Revolutions
Pope Benedict began this year by presciently devoting his first two major addresses of 2011 to appealing for greater religious freedom around the world. Popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa soon followed, […]
Books
Nothing New about the “New Atheism”
Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism is a crushing reply to the string of recent books by the so-called New Atheists—Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett , and Christopher Hitchens, […]