Rust Belt Catholics

by Mark Bauerlein

On this episode, Charles McElwee joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss the decline of Catholicism in struggling Rust Belt communities—and attempts to revive Rust Belt parishes. Continue Reading »

19 Dec 2019

America As a Catholic Country

by James Matthew Wilson

Ours is a Catholic country, not because of what we have done there, but because there has been prepared a place for God to do something. Continue Reading »

10 Dec 2019

A Last Chance for Australian Justice

by George Weigel

The highest judicial authority in Australia will review the Cardinal George Pell case in 2020.  Continue Reading »

4 Dec 2019

The Reformed Liturgy, 50 Years Later

by George Weigel

Fifty years ago, the Catholic Church marked the First Sunday of Advent with the universal implementation of the revised Roman Rite of the Mass. The liturgy wars have not abated since.  Continue Reading »

27 Nov 2019

Martin Scorsese's Damned Men Walking

by John Waters

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a meditation on the notion of culpability carried without the possibility of absolution. 
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22 Nov 2019

Pope Francis and the American Bishops

by Philip Lawler

Archbishop Charles Chaput rose to decry any suggestion that the American bishops are at odds with Pope Francis at last week’s meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.  Continue Reading »

19 Nov 2019

The “Synodality” Masquerade

by George Weigel

Over the 50-plus years of its existence, no one has figured out how to make the Synod of Bishops really work.  Continue Reading »

13 Nov 2019

On Wounded Shepherds

by Francis X. Maier

A review of Austen Ivereigh’s latest book, Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church.  Continue Reading »

12 Nov 2019

Fearlessness and the American Bishops in Rome

by George Weigel

For all its faults, the Catholic Church in the United States lives the New Evangelization better than any other local Church in the developed world.  Continue Reading »

6 Nov 2019

Catholic Ironies

by Andrew Willard Jones

In The Irony of Modern Catholic History, George Weigel offers a comprehensive interpretation of the history of the Catholic Church’s encounter with modernity. For Weigel, the fixed point in this story is the goodness of the aspirations of “political modernity,” by which he generally means . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2019