Daniel P. Moloney

Cardinal Kasper’s response to “What Mercy Is,” and Fr. Moloney’s reply. Continue Reading »

Recently, there’s been an odd conversation in Catholic circles about the nature of mercy.  . . . . Continue Reading »

In 1995, at ceremonies marking the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the liberation of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel made the following prayer: “God of forgiveness, do not forgive those who created this place. God of mercy, have no mercy on those who killed here Jewish . . . . Continue Reading »

It is surprising, given the events of the last year, to imagine that some members of the Roman Catholic clergy actively seek to be ordained a bishop, and even regard their path towards this office as an ecclesiastical “career.” St. Augustine regarded his ordination as a grave danger to . . . . Continue Reading »

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman Knopf, 326 pages, $26 The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman Knopf, 326 pages, $26 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman Knopf, 518 pages, $19.95 The bestselling novels of J. K. Rowling have tempted many reviewers to divide publishing history in two”The Potter . . . . Continue Reading »

“The Protestants were out at the pro“life ball,” my Catholic friend told me, with some agitation. “They gave us all evangelical tracts.” He was talking about a fundraising ball in Manhattan for a variety of pro“life groups. Although of the two young professional . . . . Continue Reading »

Hailed by the poststructuralist left, wielded by feminists and fundamentalists alike, and hated by most practitioners of the field it purports to explain, Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is perhaps the single most important work on the nature of rationality since . . . . Continue Reading »

At Minot Air Force base in Minot, North Dakota, a wife kisses her husband goodbye, knowing that he will be spending the night alone in close quarters with a fit, talented, professional woman officer. He will dress next to her, sleep where she slept, smell how she smells. Although their job can . . . . Continue Reading »

Leon Podles has his finger on something very important. A symptom of the problem Podles has discovered is this: men don’t like church. To be more precise, masculine men have a problem with Christianity, at least in its Western forms. In Eastern Orthodox churches (at least according to Podles) . . . . Continue Reading »

Daniel P. Moloney Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 93 (May 1999): 39-43. The poor will always be with us. Yet, pace Cain, we have an obligation to look after our brothers. As we well know, poverty today is too often accompanied by social pathologies, deep corrupting vices, and a smoldering despair . . . . Continue Reading »