This is the third in a series that will look at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series will run in the first issue of each month throughout 2018. Coming to the throne
This is the second in a series that looks at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series ran in the first issue of each month throughout 2018. The Catholic Church has taught social
This is the first in a yearlong series that looks at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve left on the Church. The series was published in the first issue of each month throughout 2018. The pontificate of Blessed
When Washington’s venerable National Press Club played host last spring to a panel with the eye-catching title “Cyber Attacks and Just War Theory,” its linking of an ancient ethical theory to cybersecurity reflected the contemporary relevance of just-war thinking. Of course, not
For many people, the season of good cheer is a deeply trying affair. This doesn’t mean unhappy souls who have good reason to be sad — the loss of loved ones, poor health, loneliness — but those who feel let down when
In Pope Francis’ continuing diagnosis of the world’s ills, elaborated on thoroughly in his most recent encyclical Laudato Si‘ (On Care for Our Common Home), consumerism — excess consumption of material goods — ranks consistently at or near the top of the
To most of the world, Pope Francis is the pope of the poor, foe of unrestrained free-market capitalism, reformer engaged in shaking up the Roman Curia, ecclesiological innovator committed to consultation, collegiality and decentralization in the governance of the Church. Francis is
As the controversy over President Barack Obama administration’s January directive to religious institutions to pay for employees’ contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs was heating up, Michael Gerson — a conservative columnist frequently friendly to the Church’s views — speculated on the reasoning
The trouble had been brewing a long time, and in mid-July, it finally boiled over. Units of the army in Spanish Morocco rose up in rebellion. The Spanish Civil War had begun. Seventy-five years later, the bloody struggle that followed from 1936