What’s Changed Since “Humanae Vitae”?
November 29, 2017
Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University is hosting a lecture series to mark the 50th anniversary of “Humanae Vitae.” The series promises...
George Weigel
A Museum For Which To Be Thankful
November 22, 2017
ON SEPT. 29, 1952, the publication of the complete Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible was celebrated at the...
As The Bard Might Say
November 15, 2017
FOUR CENTURIES AFTER his death, Shakespeare remains a peerless playwright because of his remarkable insight into the human condition. Love,...
You Have to Decide
November 8, 2017
IN WRITING “Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II,” one of my secondary intentions was to...
Murderers’ Row, Soviet-style
November 1, 2017
ONE HUNDRED years ago, on Nov. 7, 1917, Lenin and his Bolshevik Party expropriated the chaotic Russian people’s revolution that...
Which Reformation? What Reform?
October 25, 2017
Despite the formulation you’ll hear before and after the October 31 quincentenary of Luther’s 95 theses, there was no single...
Whose Bourgeois Morality
October 19, 2017
IN THE LATEST debate over “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on marriage and family, a fervent defender of the...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church at 25
October 11, 2017
JOHN PAUL II called the Extraordinary Synod of 1985 to assess what had gone right and what had gone wrong...
Fencing with Bigots
October 4, 2017
… BEING AN imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a federal appeals court and members of the Committee on the...
The Transmigration of Theological Nonsense
September 27, 2017
DURING THE LONG Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the clerical sexual abuse...