Catholic Studies publication

The Doolittle Raiders were brave men and patriots, the products of an imperfect but intact public culture that nurtured millions of heroes like them.

German Catholicism is in crisis because German Catholics have not embraced the Lord Jesus and his Gospel with passion, conviction and joy, and are seeking their happiness elsewhere.

For quite some time now, commentary on world politics by leading Catholic officials, here and at the Vatican, has been marked by a certain softness, occasionally bordering on the surreal, that is a continual amazement to non-Catholics in the more Realist sectors of the foreign-policy community.

Randy Boyagoda’s biography of Richard John Neuhaus is an authentic and compelling portrait of a man who had as much influence as any in the 20th century on the place of religion in American public life.

Cardinal Francis George was a man with the authority to “speak for the Church,” and to get his brother bishops to bracket their differences and act as one for the good of the Church.

What might the evidence of a genuine “conversion” on the part of Raúl Castro and the totalitarian regime he leads look like?

John Paul II hoped that, were the Church in the two halves of the Americas to think of itself as one, single “subject” of a first, great evangelization, it might be better prepared, spiritually and imaginatively, to undertake the new evangelization as a common enterprise.

The non-stop brouhaha over the pope’s impending “environmental” encyclical — the pre-spin that has one camp exultant and another in darkest despair — seems quite out of proportion to what we actually know, ahead of time, about the Catholic Church, environmental issues, and the encyclical-to-come.

In the 14th annual William E. Simon Lecture, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel analyzes seven lessons that John Paul’s “worldly” accomplishments teach twenty-first century statesmen, and suggests a few things the first Polish pope has to teach the rest of us.

Former NFL tight end — and working-class hero — Jim Mutscheller was a yardstick by which to measure pro sports then and now.

Wolf Hall – the wildly successful novel now adapted for television – proves, yet again, that anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable bigotry in elite circles in the Anglosphere.

The Gospels record that it took the first Christian believers a while to understand what the Resurrection meant—their fears and incomprehension bear witness to the unprecedented nature of the experience of the Risen One.