• Subscribe to Crisis

  • In his new book, George Weigel explicates the historical development of Evangelical Catholicism, a reform begun by Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), developed by the renewals of the early twentieth-century, formalized by Vatican II, and authoritatively interpreted by John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and now expressed with particular aplomb by Pope Francis. It’s a stunning account, and, for a recent…

    Read more
    Also on Crisis
    SupremeCourtJustices_2012

    The Religion of Liberalism & the New Heretics

    by James Hitchcock

    The most astonishing fact about contemporary American politics—that there is not a single Protestant on the Supreme Court, while there are six Catholics—goes largely unremarked, even though on the surface it seems to fulfill the most dire predictions made at…

    Read more
    IRS Building DC

    IRS Targets Catholic Critics of Obama Regime

    by Stephen M. Krason

    The revelations of the scandals within the Obama administration in the past couple of weeks make those of us who are old enough recall 1973, when Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s investigative reporting and then the hearings of a special…

    Read more
    ignatius-loyola & Lycurgus of Sparta 2

    Ignatius of Loyola: Lycurgus of the Jesuits

    by Tom Riley

    People who read the classical authors either love or hate Plutarch.  I love him—and am in good company, since Shakespeare loved him, too. People who love Plutarch either love or hate his fondness for parallels between the Greeks and Romans. …

    Read more
    Holbein-erasmus

    The Coming Christian Renaissance

    by David Byrne

    The linear conception of history is so seductive, even antagonistic groups like Enlightenment philosophers and Marxists adopt it.  It pervades their attitude toward religion. Both believe society matures as it sheds its religious heritage. Infantile societies practice religion, but progressive…

    Read more
    nuns-in-front-of-school

    Saving the Uncommon Core of Catholic Education

    by Emmett McGroarty and Jane Robbins

    As Catholic institutions have come under unprecedented pressure from government to trim their religious and social mission, it seems incredible that Catholic educators would consider voluntarily placing their schools under an onerous federal yoke.  But that incongruous prospect may be…

    Read more
    Demands for Women Priests

    #RealityIsReality

    by Scott P. Richert

    On May 2, 2013, Rhode Island, the most Catholic of these United States, joined the rest of New England in declaring that the sky is green and the grass is blue—or, rather, that a man can marry a man, and…

    Read more

    The womb and the tomb—one of the most striking mirror images that our lives have to offer. Babies are buried alive in their warm mothers’girth. Bodies are dead and buried in their cold mother earth. For one, there is the…

    Catholic Videos
    Via Catholic Exchange
    Politics
    hillary clinton promotes gay rights
    hillary clinton promotes gay rights

    Cultural Imperialism on the March: Obama Promotes Gay Pride Worldwide

    by Robert R. Reilly

    As June approaches, get ready for the official celebration of “Gay Pride Month” by US embassies abroad. If sodomy and same-sex marriage are constitutional rights, what is their relationship to American foreign policy? Despite the tremendous controversy regarding these issues…

    Read more
    Economics
    monopoly
    monopoly

    Faith and the Employer

    by Bruce Frohnen

    The diocese of Lansing, where I currently attend mass, is a pretty good one, as such things go in the contemporary United States.  Our parish has a very good priest and I’m confident we won’t soon be joining in on…

    Read more
    Church
    King Louis XVI
    King Louis XVI

    Abbé Edgeworth: King Louis’ Irish Confessor

    by Rev. George W. Rutler

    Among the singularities of the French monarchy was the tradition of having Scottish bodyguards. Scottish history has not been riddled with pacifism, and the Scots along with the fiery Castilians, were used as mercenaries as early as Charlemagne. An “Auld…

    Read more
    Culture
    GosnellGuilty
    GosnellGuilty

    Life and Good or Death and Evil?

    by Arland K. Nichols

    I recently read with great interest a fascinating story by the Associated Press. The life of a young girl, Lake Annabelle Hall, was saved following surgery to remove a cyst on her left lung. Had it not been discovered it…

    Read more