Catholicism comes without an escape clause: Once a person is baptized or received into the Church, there is no getting out. We blaspheme when we presume to undo the consequences of baptism by differentiating between “so-called Catholics” and the genuine article. Continue Reading »
Tim Kaine is a Harvard Law graduate, but he and other pro-choice Catholic politicians owe much to Notre Dame. As Matthew Franck has observed in First Things, Mario Cuomo’s 1984 “personally opposed but won’t impose” speech at the university was a “watershed moment” for pro-choice . . . . Continue Reading »
Our deeply wounded political culture has produced two impossible options in the 2016 Republican and Democratic tickets. Continue Reading »
Episode 3 of the First Things Podcast. Also featuring: the strange religions of the vice-presidential nominees; and a session of “Ask a Theologian,” featuring Francesca Aran Murphy. Continue Reading »
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