Catholic Studies publication

Pope Paul VI anticipated the cultural impacts of the contraceptive society with a clarity of foresight that is remarkably impressive.

Promoting international religious freedom is both morally sound and politically wise. The United States’ policy, however, favors empty rhetoric over strategy.

Evangelical Catholicism is not some fifty-yard line between Catholic left and Catholic right, but a vision of Church far beyond those polarities.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is a rare sign of hope in a nation beset by corruption on a slow slide back toward old, authoritarian ways.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s bad marriage rulings, we must continue the battle in defense of marriage.

The late Father Andrew Greeley embodied in a singular way the last rowdy moment of urban, ethnic, Counter-Reformation Catholicism in America.

There is no reason to let clergy personnel policy be shaped by anything other than the demands of the New Evangelization in a challenging cultural moment.

The author of a new book, One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child and the Joy of Being One, views children through a warped feminist lens, where parenting is a zero-sum game and each child is a potential threat to a woman’s ‘authentic self.’ She couldn’t be more wrong.

Pope Paul VI’s 1975 apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Nuntiandi, was a crucial moment in the emergence of the Evangelical Catholicism of the 21st century.

Are the Girl Scouts neutral on abortion? Hardly. They recently sponsored a live screening and panel discussion of the feminist documentary, MAKERS, which presents abortion as essential to women’s autonomy.

There should be no doubt that the Church’s deployment of the language of “human rights” has helped magnify its moral voice in world affairs.

The Church that overturned the notion that, in the civil order, “error has no rights,” is now hard-pressed by secularist forces arrayed under that banner.