The Catholic Book Club selects four books a year to read and discuss. Our most recent selection has been Catholic Modern, by James Chappel. Readers can find Father Spinale’s previous essays on this ...

Chappel skillfully explores how, why, and when the Catholic church became modern. To tackle this massive topic, Chappel breaks the book into six chronologically organized periods and begins with the ...

While I certainly hope Mr. White is correct, Archbishop Gomez appears to foreclose Catholic dialogue and collaboration by describing these movements for social change as “pseudo-religions.” Two things ...

I SUPPOSE that a Catholic priest will answer or, anyhow, say something concerning the anonymous Catholic priest who wrote about the Catholic Church in recent numbers of the Atlantic Monthly. There ...

In the 1920s, Jacques Maritain was a rising star in the field of Catholic philosophy. Like most Catholics at the time, he had little love for the modern world. In a 1922 book, aptly titled Antimoderne ...

In the early 20th century, the Roman Catholic Church had its own secret police. A zealous Vatican functionary, Monsignor Umberto Benigni, set up a group of trusted clerical informers, called the ...

(RNS) Whenever Alfonse Borysewicz addresses a fresh canvas, a daunting set of issues stares back at him. First, there is the fact that Borysewicz is painting from faith, when, for the most part, it ...

Whenever Alfonse Borysewicz addresses a fresh canvas, a daunting set of issues stares back at him. First, there is the fact that Borysewicz is painting from faith, when, for the most part, it doesn’t ...