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

A Paper Church

by Julia Yost

John Henry Newman joined the Catholic Church on October 9, 1845, after concluding that the via media of Anglo-Catholicism, which he had sought for years to vindicate, existed only in theory, a dream of dons. He had constructed a “paper religion”; his notion of the Church of England . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2019

Does Natural Law Need Theology?

by David Novak

Until quite recently, natural law thinking had been a Catholic preserve. My interest in it was awakened during my days as a Jewish undergraduate at the University of Chicago, by the great Leo Strauss—himself a serious, though nonobservant, Jew. When I told Strauss of my interest in natural . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2019

A New Cardinal Honors an Entire Nation

by George Weigel

Sigitas Tamkevicius’s enrollment in the College of Cardinals was a papal tribute to a brave man who exemplifies the best the Society of Jesus offers the Church and the world. Continue Reading »

30 Oct 2019

LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD-2019: #9

Edited by Xavier Rynne II

Synod-2019 cast in sharp relief the grave doctrinal and theological issues facing the Church.  Continue Reading »

28 Oct 2019