Features
Marcus Grodi reflects on 20 years of “The Journey Home”
Grodi, the founder of the Coming Home Network and the host of EWTN’s “The Journey Home,” discusses how Mother Angelica asked him to start a […]
Protestantism
The Dispatch
All Souls: A day for hope and grief
The continuing connection of the dead to the living highlights the paradox at the heart of Catholic teachings on death. […]
Analysis
Protestantism in the Catholic Church: The emergence of a shared tradition?
Here are three major ways in which Protestantism has influenced the Catholic Church. […]
Interview
“We cannot love what do not know”: An interview with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
“Catholic dogmas,” says the author of The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism, “are intellectual sign-posts: teachings that point us toward divine truth and that […]
The Dispatch
“Luther and His Progeny” addresses legacy, influence from Catholic perspective
What Descartes set in motion in the world of thought, Luther a short time before had set in motion in religion: the solitary individual standing in judgment on tradition, having to verify for himself each […]
Features
Further thoughts on Luther, the Reformation—and G. K. Chesterton
So, I took some heat from my previous article on the Reformation—“The Bible, the Reformation, and G.K. Chesterton”—because I implied that the Reformation was started by Protestants. Apparently I did not spend enough time attacking […]
Books
Eamon Duffy’s “Reformation Divided” revises assumptions, offers deep historical insights
The five hundredth anniversary of the issuing of the Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther, the event customarily taken as the inauguration of the Protestant Reformation, is this October 31st. For such an anniversary, everyone who […]
The Dispatch
The Bible, the Reformation, and G.K. Chesterton
“I suppose it will take centuries to unwind the coil of confusion and stupidity, which began when the Reformers quite irrationally separated the Bible from the Church.” Although G.K. Chesterton is admired by both Protestants […]
The Dispatch
Looking at Luther with fresh eyes
With great profit and pleasure I’m currently reading Alec Ryrie’s new book Protestants: The Faith that Made the Modern World. Among the many texts appearing in this year of the five hundredth anniversary of the Reformation, […]
Interview
What Can Catholics and Protestants Learn From Each Another?
The most recent book from the prolific Dr. Peter Kreeft, titled Catholics and Protestants: What Can We Learn From Each Other? (Ignatius Press, 2017), is a frank and engaging examination of the common ground shared by […]