Fearlessness and the American Bishops in Rome
by George WeigelFor 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 »
Letters From the Synod–2019: #2
Edited by Xavier Rynne IICatholics are growing dispirited by a Church that increasingly presents itself as a global NGO whose primary concerns are political rather than spiritual. Continue Reading »
Letters From the Synod-2019: #1
Edited by Xavier Rynne IIThe Amazon Synod will expose theological and doctrinal tensions within Catholicism that have roiled the Church for the past half-century. Continue Reading »
What She Asks, She Obtains
by Stephen SchmalhoferThe Virgin's influence extends to American art. Continue Reading »
Restoring, and strengthening, episcopal credibility
by George WeigelVos estis lux mundi seeks to heal the Church's wounds. Continue Reading »
Big Julie
by Joseph EpsteinJames Boswell, who knew a thing or two about hero worship, called Julius Caesar “the greatest man of any age.” Alexander Hamilton told Thomas Jefferson that Caesar was “the greatest man who ever lived.” Theodor Mommsen, in his History of Rome, called Caesar “the sole creative genius . . . . Continue Reading »
A Failing Papacy
by R. R. RenoThe current regime in Rome will damage the Catholic Church. Pope Francis combines laxity and ruthlessness. His style is casual and approachable; his church politics are cold and cunning. There are leading themes in this pontificate—mercy, accompaniment, peripheries, and so forth—but . . . . Continue Reading »
Wonder Is Critical
by Randy BoyagodaI finished teaching a university course in faith and ideas a little while ago by administering individual oral exams to forty first-year students. The exams took place in a hotel bar overlooking a volcanic lake. The pope’s summer palace shone in the distance, and the Mediterranean gleamed . . . . Continue Reading »
Pagan Piety
by Kyle HarperPantheon: A New History of Roman Religion by jörg rüpke translated by david m. b. richardson princeton, 576 pages, $39.95 In August of 410, for the first time in eight centuries, the city of Rome was sacked. While the fall of the ancient capital to an army of renegade Goths might . . . . Continue Reading »
Eternal Rome
by Martin MosebachI was fifteen when I first saw Rome. One of my mother’s sisters had invited me to stay with her; we lived in a little hotel near the Via Nomentana and we were on our feet from morning till evening because I wanted to see “everything.” I came home convinced that I had actually seen . . . . Continue Reading »
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