Francis X. Maier is a senior fellow in the Catholic Studies Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Mr. Maier’s work focuses on the intersection of Christian faith, culture, and public life, with special attention to lay formation and action.
Mr. Maier served as senior adviser and special assistant to Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., for 23 years in Denver and Philadelphia. He previously served as editor in chief of the National Catholic Register, and as a story analyst and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and New York University’s School of the Arts, he is a former fellow of the American Film Institute’s Conservatory for Advanced Film Studies. He is a cofounding board member of the University of Pennsylvania’s Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture, and a board member of the Napa Institute.
His bylined work has appeared in First Things, National Review, The American Spectator, Crisis, This World, America, Commonweal, the New York Times Sunday magazine, Christian Science Monitor, and other national and foreign outlets.
PUBLICATIONS
Our Real Pandemic
Published in The Catholic Thing on May 5, 2021
The One Necessary Thing
Published in The Catholic Thing on April 16, 2021
True Economic Headway Ennobles the Human Spirit
Published in Legatus on April 1, 2021
Things Worth Dying For
Published in The Catholic Thing on March 3, 2021
Somebody Needs to Be Dad
Published in First Things on February 22, 2021
Hope and Her Daughters
Published in First Things - March 2021 issue on February 11, 2021
Some Thoughts on Words and Their Meanings
Published in The Catholic Thing on February 4, 2021
Ordinary Time
Published in The Catholic Thing on January 20, 2021
Memory and Gratitude
Published in The Catholic Thing on December 9, 2020
People of the Lie
Published in The Catholic Thing on November 14, 2020
The New Colonialism
Published in First Things on November 5, 2020
Why the Digital Mob Fears the Power of Little-Read Books
Published in National Catholic Register on October 29, 2020
Faith, Reason, and Catholic Political Engagement
Published in The Catholic World Report on October 29, 2020
Philadelphia and the New “Tolerance”
Published in First Things on October 26, 2020
Until We Rest in Him
Published in First Things on November 1, 2020
If You Sup With The Devil
Published in First Things on October 9, 2020
Raised by Wolves
Published in The Catholic Thing on October 7, 2020
It Can’t Happen Here: A Review of Live Not By Lies
Published in The Catholic World Report on October 5, 2020
The Catholic Future
Published in First Things on September 2020
White Dwarf
Published in The Catholic Thing on September 2, 2020
Sympathy for the Devil
Published in First Things on August 31, 2020
Yes, We Have No Bernanos
Published in The Catholic Thing on August 6, 2020
Brave New World Revisited
Published in First Things on July 30, 2020
Liars Go to Hell
Published in First Things on July 23, 2020
Paradoxes of Faith in Service to the Supreme Paradox
Published in The Catholic World Report on July 13, 2020
Escape Clause
Published in The Catholic Thing on July 4, 2020
Life Lessons: Four Pillars, Three Little Pigs
Published in Public Discourse on June 14, 2020
All Conflict, All the Time
Published in The Catholic Thing on June 3, 2020
Redeemer of Man
Published in The Catholic Thing on May 6, 2020
The Triduum and Easter Joy
Published in Public Discourse on April 9, 2020
Justinian’s Flea, Redux
Published in The Catholic Thing on April 1, 2020
Pope Francis’s Respectful Critics Deserve Better Than Scorn
Published in National Review Online on March 20, 2020
Always the Era of the Saints
Published in First Things on March 19, 2020
To Make All Things New
Published in The Catholic Thing on March 4, 2020
Thoughts on the Lay Vocation
Published in The Catholic Thing on February 5, 2020
Sex, Celibacy, and the Latest Curiosity From Rome
Published in First Things on January 15, 2020
Salvation Is From the Jews
Published in The Catholic Thing on January 8, 2020
Crisis, Church Reform, and the Lay Vocation
Published in Crisis Magazine on October 1, 2019
Prosperity Breeds Idiots
Published in First Things on September 3. 2019
Forgiveness: A Lesson in Three Parts
Published in In Character on September 1, 2008