As Catholic Americans prepare to mark Independence Day, we naturally look not only to the well-known “founding fathers” such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington but also to our Catholic forbears who were […]
On April 16, 1947, the cargo in an oceangoing vessel at Texas City, Texas, detonated, setting off a chain reaction of fires and explosions that killed 581 people. It was the deadliest industrial accident in […]
Christopher Shannon is too modest. In his introduction to American Pilgrimage, he concedes that his telling of the American Catholic story is “selective” and that “many comprehensive histories of the material I cover already exist […]
In recent years, controversies over police shootings and school curricula have brought racial tensions once again to the forefront of American consciousness. Astute Catholics have analyzed Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) […]
Government-imposed public health measures during the COVID pandemic have ignited a new round of church-state conflict, whose resolution—or lack thereof—will resonate long after the coronavirus crisis has passed. These legal clashes have for the most […]
There is a consequential debate going on right now in intellectual Catholic circles that ought to interest all Catholics. It can be found in the (often digital) pages of First Things, Law and Liberty, Public […]
The first coronavirus patient in the United States was treated in a Catholic health care system in the state of Washington. Catholic institutions account for a large percentage of medical services in many states and […]
On November 2, 1963, shortly after they attended Mass in the city of Cholon, Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu were taken from a nearby Marian grotto and executed. They […]
Ever since the seventeenth century, the celebrated “Galileo affair” has been one of the featured items on the list of dark moments in the history of Catholicism. That the Church mistreated the Italian astronomer—or at […]
In the 1980s, Richard John Neuhaus famously criticized the “naked public square”: the notion that public life—politics, business, education—should be devoid of religious content. Advocates of the naked public square see religion as inherently divisive. […]
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