Stephen P. White is a fellow in the Catholic Studies Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Mr. White’s work focuses on the application of Catholic social teaching to a broad spectrum of contemporary political and cultural issues. His is the author of Red, White, Blue, and Catholic (Liguori Publications, 2016).
Mr. White’s writing has been published in a wide variety of outlets and websites, including: The Weekly Standard, National Review Online, First Things, America Magazine, The Catholic Thing, Huffington Post, The Daily Caller, Magnificat, Vox, and The Catholic Herald (UK).
Since 2005, Mr. White has been coordinator of the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society, a three week seminar on Catholic social teaching with an emphasis on the thought of St. John Paul II which takes place every summer in Krakow, Poland.
Mr. White studied politics at the University of Dallas and philosophy at the Catholic University of America. He is a graduate of the St. Patrick’s Evangelisation School in London, England.
PUBLICATIONS
New Leadership in Baltimore and Boston
Published in The Catholic Thing on March 14, 2019
The Stakes Are Being Raised
Published in The Catholic Thing on February 28, 2019
Mr. McCarrick’s Mess
Published in The Catholic Thing on February 14, 2019
Knowing What We’re Up Against
Published in The Catholic Thing on January 31, 2019
Wuerl Misread the Crisis; Pope Francis Need Not
Published in The Catholic Thing on January 17, 2019
Giving Due Process Its Due
Published in The Catholic Thing on January 3, 2019
Piecemeal but Concrete Beginnings of Reform
Published in The Catholic Thing on December 20, 2018
Advent and Reform
Published in The Catholic Thing on December 6, 2018
We Need an Answer to Idolatrous Nationalism. But Don’t Look to Emmanuel Macron.
Published in Catholic Herald on November 22, 2018
Reckoning with the Baltimore Fiasco
Published in The Catholic Thing on November 21, 2018
Miters and Millstones
Published in The Catholic Thing on November 8, 2018
Much to Lose, Much to Gain
Published in The Catholic Thing on October 25, 2018
For Their Sake and for Ours…
Published in The Catholic Thing on October 11, 2018
Ask and You Shall Receive?
Published in The Catholic Thing on September 27, 2018
Poland is Beset by Russian Revanchism, Western Decadence, and Dangers from Within
Published in Washington Examiner on September 19, 2018
Some Action – Maybe – Starts Today
Published in The Catholic Thing on September 13, 2018
For Pope Francis, Everything Hangs in the Balance: What to Make of Carlo Maria Viganò’s Charges
Published in New York Daily News on August 27, 2018
Evangelization Isn’t Getting People to Fall in Line—It’s Getting Them to Fall in Love
Published in America Magazine on August 9, 2018
An Object of Detestation
Published in The Catholic Thing on April 30, 2018
The Pope’s Mess
Published in The Weekly Standard on March 29, 2018
A Consistent Ethic of Life Must Begin with Defending Life Itself
Published in Catholic News Agency on February 1, 2018
The Bishops Caught Between the Vatican and the Chinese Government
Published in The Weekly Standard on January 24, 2018
The Meaning of the Left’s Attacks on an 18th Century Franciscan Friar
Published in Washington Examiner on September 15, 2017
As Trump Meets the Pope, Trump’s Detractors are Still Failing to Persuade His Catholic Voters Away from Him
Published in Washington Examiner on May 24, 2017
Callista Gingrich Suits the Job of Vatican Ambassador. But Can Newt Stay Out of the Spotlight?
Published in Catholic Herald (UK) on May 18, 2017
Trump’s Disappointing Executive Order and Narrow View of Religious Liberty
Published in Washington Examiner on May 5, 2017
A Trump Presidency Brings Opportunity but also Great Risk
Published in Catholic Herald (UK) on November 10, 2016
Interview: How Catholics Can Be Good Citizens and Not Despair
Published in National Review Online on May 4, 2016
Catholicism’s American Revolution
Published in Catholic Herald (UK) on September 17, 2015
The Pope’s Climate Change Message is Really About Rethinking What it Means to be Human
Published in Vox on June 24, 2015
Strong Medicine: The World Needs to Hear the Message of Laudato Si’
Published in CatholicVote.org on June 22, 2015
A Sign of Contradiction
Published in America on June 19, 2015
A Life in the Public Square
Published in MercatorNet on April 21, 2015
Our Only Option
Published in Ethika Politika on March 18, 2014
The Francis Revolution
Published in New York Daily News on January 19, 2014
The Bishops and Obamacare
Published in CatholicVote on December 4, 2013
The Pope’s Priorities: An Opportunity for Evangelical Clarity
Published in America Magazine on September 26, 2013
The Unbelievably Small War
Published in National Review Online on September 9, 2013
3 Ways Pope Francis Will Emulate His Namesake
Published in The Huffington Post on March 19, 2013
Pope Francis: Protect Creation, It Points to God!
Published in CatholicVote.org on March 20, 2013
‘Preach the Gospel Always. If Necessary, Use Words.’
Published in National Review Online on March 14, 2013
Pope Benedict’s Legacy of Humility
Published in The Washington Times on February 14, 2013
This Pope’s Legacy
Published in National Review Online on February 12, 2013
What Popes Are For
Published in The Huffington Post on February 12, 2013
Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and the Future of Conservatism
Published in CatholicVote.org on January 29, 2013
What Constitutes a Nation?
Published in CatholicVote.org on January 8, 2013
The Strange Clericalism of Women’s Ordination
Published in The Catholic Thing on December 6, 2012
Civil Society is Solidarity’s Natural Home
Published in CatholicVote on December 5, 2012
Five Reasons for Optimism
Published in The Catholic Thing on November 17, 2012
The Decline and Fall of Catholic Democrats?
Published in National Review Online on September 11, 2012
Above My Pay Grade…Four Years later
Published in National Review Online on August 17, 2012
Two Archbishops, Two Takes on Freedom
Published in CatholicVote.org on July 6, 2012
American Roman Catholic Nuns and The Vatican
Published in Diane Rehm Show on June 19, 2012
Good Government, Bad Government, and the Demands of Catholic Citizenship
Published in CatholicVote.org on June 13, 2012
The Catholic Left, Desperate for a Win
Published in National Review Online on April 26, 2012
Bad Religion
Published in The Catholic Thing on April 26, 2012
A Most Vexing Problem
Published in The Catholic Thing on April 4, 2012
Republicans Need to Make the Common-Good Case for Conservatism
Published in The Daily Caller on February 13, 2012
A Matter of Principle…
Published in National Review Online on February 2, 2012
We the People…Conservatism for the Common Good
Published in CatholicVote.org on January 31, 2012
Values (and “Values Voters”) in 2012
Published in National Review Online on December 13, 2011
The Most Sacramental Season
Published in The Catholic Thing on December 1, 2011
E.J. Dionne and the Straw Man Massacre
Published in National Review Online on October 27, 2011
Is that "Seamless"? Or "Unseemly"?
Published in Catholic Vote on October 18, 2011
A Long View of Vatican II
Published in The Catholic Thing on October 12, 2011
Notre Dame Has Yet to Learn Its Lesson
Published in First Things on October 8, 2011
Trickle Down and Bottom Up
Published in The Catholic Thing on September 5, 2011
Which is it? Principles or Prudence?
Published in CatholicVote.org on August 3, 2011
Catholic Conservatives and the Common Good
Published in The Catholic Thing on May 26, 2011
Another Ordinary Summer
Published in First Things on March 21, 2011