Cardinal Newman’s Canonization
by Mark BauerleinFeaturing Ryan Marr on John Henry Newman. Continue Reading »
A False Paradigm
by Michael HanbySo much for the “new paradigm.” With the Church now mired in its most severe crisis since the Protestant Reformation, the heady talk of last spring now seems as distant as the “Catholic moment” or the “springtime of evangelization.” Rightly or wrongly, the idea of a gauzy mercy without . . . . Continue Reading »
On Hot Takes and Hohenstaufen Emperors
by Junior FellowsThe junior fellows reflect on Ernst Kantorowicz's Frederick the Second and Newman's views on journalism. Continue Reading »
Learning from the White Rose
by George WeigelSeventy-five years ago, Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Christian Probst were executed for opposing Hitler’s Third Reich. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousDEADLY DESERTS Paul Griffiths’s sneering review of our book, By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed (“Against Capital Punishment,” December 2017), illustrates how much bile—and how little charity—is often to be found in those who speak the loudest of mercy and humanity. Griffiths suggests . . . . Continue Reading »
Four Ideas About Development
by Michael PakalukDevelopment of doctrine is not itself a doctrine, but a theory, and there are several such theories. Continue Reading »
Pope Francis on the Development of Doctrine
by P. J. SmithPope Francis recently declared that the death penalty is “per se contrary to the Gospel”—but this statement is flatly untraditional according to Church history. Continue Reading »
Catholicism in the Modern World
by Thomas Joseph WhiteAn interview with Thomas Joseph White. Continue Reading »
Peter Says No
by John HunwickeJust as Peter was not the dazzling originator of new teaching, his successors have more often served as a brake on innovation than as its impetus. This is as it should be. The Pope serves the Church best by saying “no” to errors and heresies. Continue Reading »
Reformed Ressourcement
by Mats WahlbergChristian Dogmatics: Reformed Theology for the Church Catholicedited by michael allen and scott r. swainbaker, 416 pages, $36.99Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretationby michael allen and scott r. swainbaker, 176 pages, $21In his Essay on the . . . . Continue Reading »
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