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December 2015

December 17, 2015

More on the Pope’s openness to communion with Lutherans

As we blogged about, Pope Francis recently visited a Lutheran church in Rome, where, in...

December 15, 2015

Indulgences for the Jubilee Year

Nearly 500 years after the 95 Theses, Roman Catholics still believe in indulgences that will...

December 14, 2015

Pope says to preach Gospel, then Law

The Pope began his Jubilee Year of Mercy by ceremonially opening the Holy Door at...

November 2015

November 11, 2015

“Conscience,” “calling,” and the new pastoral counseling

More from Terry Mattingly's column about the new Protestant-like role of "conscience" in liberal Catholicism: ...

November 10, 2015

Three branches of Catholicism?

There are three branches of Judaism: Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox. A similar breakdown is evident...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

The Reformation of the church

Tomorrow is Reformation Day, the anniversary of Martin Luther's posting of his 95 Theses against...

October 08, 2015

Exorcising a whole country

Roman Catholic archbishops and exorcists met together to conduct an "Exorcismo Magno," with the purpose...

September 2015

September 17, 2015

How Obama will get in the Pope’s face

To greet Pope Francis at the White House next week, President Obama has invited a...

September 09, 2015

The Pope makes annullments easier

Roman Catholics don't allow for divorce, the dissolution of a marriage. They do, however, allow...

September 08, 2015

Conservative Catholics revolting against the Pope?

The Washington Post reports that a backlash against Pope Francis is taking place among many...

July 2015

July 13, 2015

Exorcising America

A group of Roman Catholic clerics in Mexico recently conducted an exorcism designed to cast...

June 2015

June 25, 2015

If you embrace nature, embrace natural law

The Pope's encyclical "Laudato Si" is winning fulsome praise from the left for its embrace...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Thomas More vs. the Reformation

Now that Hilary Mantel's superb novels about Thomas Cromwell have been made into a TV...

April 16, 2015

Evangelicals who believe in Purgatory

It has long struck me how many evangelicals--including some of the most anti-Catholic--actually hold to...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

The new culture war?

The liberal Catholic columnist E. J. Dionne says that the old culture wars are fading,...

December 2014

December 16, 2014

What a Shakespeare folio does not prove

A copy of the 1623 folio of Shakespeare's collected plays has been discovered as part...

December 02, 2014

The Pope and the Koch brothers

Philanthropists John and Carol Saeman explain why they support both Pope Francis's concern for the...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

Evangelicals take part in Vatican marriage conference

Evangelicals, Pentecostalists, and even Mormons took part in a recent Vatican conference on marriage, which...

November 12, 2014

Protestants who believe in Purgatory

Some Protestants, including some evangelicals, are trying to bring back the belief in Purgatory. After...

October 2014

October 24, 2014

Gradualism and the two senses of Grace

Roman Catholic theologian David Cloutier gives a lucid explanation of "gradualism," that take on moral...

October 15, 2014

Synod says, look for the good in gay & non-marital unions

More from the first working document from the Catholic synod on the family: The Church...

October 14, 2014

Catholic family synod & liberal Protestantism?

The first document from the Catholic synod on the family--which is considering divorce, cohabitation, homosexuality,...

October 09, 2014

The Catholic debate over liberal society

Rod Dreher describes what happened at a conference sponsored by First Things on the future...

October 06, 2014

Catholics begin synod on marriage & sexual morality

The Extraordinary Synod on the Family is underway at the Vatican. Two hundred bishops of...

August 2014

August 05, 2014

Half of marriages aren’t valid?

Roman Catholics don't believe in divorce. But they do allow for annulments. These involve ecclesiastical...

June 2014

June 16, 2014

Catholic, Calvinist, and Libertarian

David Brat, the Virginia economics professor who overthrew House Majority leader Eric Cantor in the...

June 09, 2014

Is the free market incompatible with Catholicism?

The pope's right-hand man has essentially declared that free market economics is incompatible with Catholicism. ...

May 2014

May 14, 2014

“Spiritual Communion”?

According to Roman Catholicism, you can receive "spiritual communion" even when you don't take actual,...

May 05, 2014

Pope calls conclave to re-examine sexual teachings

At this rate, maybe Pope Francis will be the last pope! Contraception, cohabitation, divorce, remarriage...

February 2014

February 10, 2014

Pro-American vs. Anti-American conservatives

Political theorist Patrick J. Deneen notes two different and conflict schools among Roman Catholic conservatives: ...