It has become a commonplace in Catholic circles that, while the controversies of the Patristic era were largely theological and Christological, and the controversies of the Reformation era were largely soteriological and ecclesiological, the controversies the Church faces today are primarily anthropological in character. When we make this observation, we
For several years in a row on May 26, the feast of St. Philip Neri, I have written an email to Alasdair MacIntyre with a brief greeting and a recent photo of the son we named after him. He usually replied within a few hours, and his use of exclamation
The immediate purpose of Rerum novarum was public policy, specifically the question of just wages for laborers and their right to form associations. In no letter do we find Leo writing so ambidextrously with respect to policy and theory. We leave the policy issues to one side in order to
Sixty years ago, Pope Paul VI declared that the Catholic Church is “proud to have glorified and liberated woman, and in the course of centuries, in diversity of characters, to have brought into relief her . . . equality with man.” Almost forty years ago, Pope John Paul II declared
Why did Pope Francis write an encyclical on the Sacred Heart? How does it advance the discourse beyond the contributions of Miserentissimus Redemptor by Piux XI[1] and, especially, Haurietis Aquas (HA) by Pius XII?[2] Does it add substantively to the rich corpus on Sacred Heart devotion beyond offering his own
The Longing for Unity: Augustine and the Limits of Philosophy When Pope Leo XIV chose in illo uno unum (“In the One, we are One”) as his papal motto, he signaled not merely a spiritual aspiration that one might expect from a pope who calls himself a “Son of St.
We are still a long way off from receiving final and confirmed data for 2024 from the CDC, but, unless there is a surprising and unexpected aberration from recent trends, the U.S. is likely to have experienced another year of historically high or even record setting rates and overall numbers