Stephen P. White

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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. He is the author of Red, White, Blue, and Catholic (Liguori Publications, 2016).

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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. He 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.

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Reckoning with the Baltimore Fiasco

Stephen P. White

If Rome thinks delaying action by American bishops or weakening conference leadership is in the best interests of American Catholics, then they are gravely mistaken. The last thing American Catholics need right now is to be treated as pawns in an ecclesiastical power struggle.

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The Catholic Thing / November 21, 2018

Miters and Millstones

Stephen P. White

There is one question that cuts to the heart of the outrage and anger felt by millions of Catholic faithful: What kind of father, what kind of man, responds to the abuse of his own children the way so many of our bishops have responded to the abuse of their own?

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The Catholic Thing / November 8, 2018

Much to Lose, Much to Gain

Stephen P. White

Maybe the humiliation and suffering the Catholic Church in the United States is undergoing will bear fruit in the long run. But it’s hard to see how good comes from the current crisis unless there is a renewed sense in the Church that what is at stake is the salvation of souls.

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The Catholic Thing / October 25, 2018

For Their Sake and for Ours…

Stephen P. White

Pope Francis has made it clear that he doesn’t want the abuse crisis to crowd out a discussion at the synod of the pastoral needs of young people. That’s understandable, but the topic of abuse is also unavoidable.

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The Catholic Thing / October 11, 2018

Ask and You Shall Receive?

Stephen P. White

While Pope Francis’s condemnation of the sexual abuse of children has been unequivocal (one would expect no less), it’s still not entirely clear that he grasps just how dire is the crisis of confidence in the bishops themselves.

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The Catholic Thing / September 27, 2018

Poland is Beset by Russian Revanchism, Western Decadence, and Dangers from Within

Stephen P. White

The Polish situation is more complicated than easy analogies to Trumpism would suggest. Poland is striving, in a stumbling and halting way, to maintain its identity, an identity that is both European and inextricably Catholic.

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Washington Examiner / September 19, 2018

Some Action – Maybe – Starts Today

Stephen P. White

Whatever the fruits of today’s meeting between the USCCB delegation and Pope Francis, it’s essential to understand that the reforms the Church in the United States needs will come with and through the pope and his brother bishops – with and through Peter and his fellow apostles – or it will not come.

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The Catholic Thing / September 13, 2018

For Pope Francis, Everything Hangs in the Balance: What to Make of Carlo Maria Viganò’s…

Stephen P. White

What began as a child-sex-abuse scandal has mushroomed into the greatest crisis of confidence in the Catholic hierarchy since the Reformation. What happens next will define Pope Francis’ entire pontificate, and much more.

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New York Daily News / August 27, 2018

Evangelization Isn’t Getting People to Fall in Line—It’s Getting Them to Fall in Love

Stephen P. White

Pope Francis’s strategy of holy disruption is a deliberate evangelical strategy, and it is, perhaps, a strategy perfectly tailored to our times—but it is also risky, especially in this secular era.

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America Magazine / August 13, 2018

An Object of Detestation

Stephen P. White

Alfie Evans was treated – not as a person in full, the son of a father and mother – but as a naked individual whose dignity consists in his “interests,” and who was subject to the ministrations of impersonal forces of the state.

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The Catholic Thing / April 30, 2018

The Pope’s Mess

Stephen P. White

Ross Douthat, in his new book, To Change the Church, looks at Pope Francis’s pontificate, examining both the missed opportunities and the ongoing search for a new, stable synthesis.

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The Weekly Standard / March 29, 2018

A Consistent Ethic of Life Must Begin with Defending Life Itself

Stephen P. White

The greatest, most glaring inconsistency in Catholic witness to human dignity and the sanctity of life is the widespread Catholic facilitation of, and support for, the killing of innocent children through abortion.

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Catholic News Agency / February 2, 2018