Catholic Studies publication

When we cooperate with the order of Creation, we grow and become more like the one who created us.

For baseball is a “signal of transcendence”—a window into the supernatural—in several ways.

Throughout the Lenten itinerary of conversion we have lived for six weeks, the Church has asked us to reflect on God’s thirst for us.

The Church, like any human institution, is comprised of people. And each of those people, including ourselves, is a sinner, from plumber to pope, with the sin of greed high on the popularity list.

Over the past 1,800 years, other deviant Christian thinkers have tried to “take the Jewish out of Jesus,” so to speak.

A suggestion for a different kind of Lenten fast: Give up Catholic bad news-mongering.

“Our democracy” is on the brink of a theocratic coup. “Our democracy” is being hijacked by racists, fascists, homophobes, and misogynists.

In urging the victim to yield to the aggressor, he repudiates centuries of Catholic teaching.

American culture, such as it is, has never really been Catholic. We have had many Catholic subcultures, some of them thriving.

Both Stanley Rother and Alexei Navalny exemplified the cardinal virtue of courage, which is also a gift of the Holy Spirit.

But it should be understood that the Catholic Church cannot abandon the just war tradition because that tradition is rooted in both revelation and reason and is the permanently valid method of moral analysis that Catholics should use in thinking through issues of war and peace.

The anonymity of the text, however reasonable its motives, inevitably weakens its effect and opens it to criticism.