On October 13, Pope Francis will declare John Henry Newman a saint. Catholics from around the world will crowd St. Peter’s Square to see the greatest religious thinker of Victorian England raised to the altars. Amid the joy and apparent concord of that day, there will be at least two . . . . Continue Reading »
A spectre is haunting the preparations for next month’s Amazon Synod: the spectre of John Henry Newman. Continue Reading »
Cardinal Dulles’s address to the Cardinal Newman Society on November 11, 2001, in Washington, D.C. Continue Reading »
Featuring Ryan Marr on John Henry Newman. Continue Reading »
So 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 »
The junior fellows reflect on Ernst Kantorowicz's Frederick the Second and Newman's views on journalism. Continue Reading »
Seventy-five years ago, Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Christian Probst were executed for opposing Hitler’s Third Reich. Continue Reading »
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 »
Development of doctrine is not itself a doctrine, but a theory, and there are several such theories. Continue Reading »
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 »
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