An All-Too-Moveable Feast

by Charlotte Allen

When you ease up on distinctive Catholic practices, such as celebrating Mass on Ascension Thursday, people forget they have any Catholic identity at all. Continue Reading »

10 May 2018

Cheap Joy

by Kenneth Colston

The Resurrection without Holy Week would be pie-in-the-sky and cheap joy.  Continue Reading »

4 May 2018

Making a Diverse College of Cardinals Work

by George Weigel

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a diverse College of Cardinals?  Continue Reading »

2 May 2018

Clarify Me, Please, God of the Galaxies

by Dana Gioia

The English poet Elizabeth Jennings had the peculiar fate of being in the right place at the right time in the wrong way. Her career began splendidly. Her verse appeared in prominent journals, championed by Oxford’s new generation of tastemakers. Her first publication, Poems (1953), . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2018

A Diagnosis of Moralosis

by John Waters

Those who have been given the run of the square now want the run of nave, transept, and belfry—and many within the Church are willing to give in. Continue Reading »

23 Apr 2018

From the Heart of a Young Father

by Charles J. Chaput

The future of the Catholic faith belongs to those committed to bringing new life into the world and raising their children in truth. Continue Reading »

18 Apr 2018

An Ambiguous Exhortation

by Dan Hitchens

The apostolic exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate, for all its strengths, adds to the ambiguities of Pope Francis’s papacy. Continue Reading »

12 Apr 2018

What Would Have Stopped Martin Luther

by Michael D. Breidenbach

By convening a council, the Church might have averted the Reformation. Continue Reading »

12 Apr 2018

A Tradition Unlike Any Other

by Brandon McGinley

We seem to have internalized the liberal view that the Church is just another institution among many, and that what she has to offer is parochial, not universal.  Continue Reading »

6 Apr 2018

Conscience of a Kennedy

by Charles Donovan

Near the end of his life, Ted Kennedy came to believe that healthcare workers should be shielded from involvement in practices contrary to the Catholic faith. Continue Reading »

5 Apr 2018