Features
The long shadows of the First Vatican Council
Revered and Reviled squarely faces the problem that Vatican I presents, and has always presented about papal primacy. […]
papacy
Features
Cardinal Eijk, Pope Francis, and problems of governance
The basic dynamic of this pontificate is quite clear, and it leaves far too much unclear. […]
Columns
Sanity and the Church
Cultural radicalism rejects tradition, and therefore rejects everything except immediate impressions, abstract ideology, and naked will. That’s no way to build anything solid, let alone […]
The Dispatch
Air turbulence and the Resurrection
It’s not possible to know the Risen Lord and to indulge in despair. […]
Books
Douthat’s lament: Francis “must have known that it did not have to be this way”
To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism seeks to make sense of a pontificate that began with great promise but has […]
Books
A Papacy of Contradictions
Veteran journalist Phil Lawler asks hard questions in Lost Shepherd about where Pope Francis is—or isn’t—leading the Catholic Church. […]
The Dispatch
Pope Francis, “diaconal primacy”, and decentralization of the curia
Decentralization by no means guarantees better governance, but is much more theologically, historically, and practically defensible than the Roman centralization and personality cult of the […]
Analysis
Questioning the prospects of Catholic-Orthodox unity
The latest statement of the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation (NAOCTC) begins and ends with questions, and these are both more valuable and certainly more interesting […]
Features
Is there really a definitive teaching of the Church on capital punishment?
A second response to Professor Edward Feser […]
History
In the Habit: A History of Catholicism and Tobacco
Saints who smoked, popes who puffed, and others who snuffed. […]