On Hot Takes and Hohenstaufen Emperors

by Junior Fellows

The junior fellows reflect on Ernst Kantorowicz's Frederick the Second and Newman's views on journalism.  Continue Reading »

10 Aug 2018

Learning from the White Rose

by George Weigel

Seventy-five years ago, Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Christian Probst were executed for opposing Hitler’s Third Reich. Continue Reading »

14 Mar 2018

Letters

by Various

DEADLY 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 »

1 Feb 2018

Four Ideas About Development

by Michael Pakaluk

Development of doctrine is not itself a doctrine, but a theory, and there are several such theories. Continue Reading »

17 Nov 2017

Pope Francis on the Development of Doctrine

by P. J. Smith

Pope 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 »

16 Oct 2017

Catholicism in the Modern World

by Thomas Joseph White

An interview with Thomas Joseph White.  Continue Reading »

25 Aug 2017

Peter Says No

by John Hunwicke

Just 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 »

7 Feb 2017

Reformed Ressourcement

by Mats Wahlberg

Christian 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 »

1 Feb 2017

Catholicism Embodied: “The Pivotal Players”

by George Weigel

Pivotal Players is a follow-up to Bishop Barron’s immensely successful ten-part mega-series, Catholicism, the most compelling presentation of the symphony of Catholic truth ever created for modern media. Key figures in Catholic history appeared throughout the original series to illustrate this truth of the faith or that facet of the Catholic experience. Continue Reading »

9 Nov 2016

No Man Would Be a Martyr for a Syllogism

by Madison Michieli

Congratulations to Madison Michieli. for winning second place in our second annual Student Essay Contest. Here is her response to prompt #2. Continue Reading »

16 Aug 2016