The intertwined stories of Jacques Maritain and ‘Nostra Aetate’ underscore the need for Christians, now more than ever, to repudiate and combat antisemitism.
History
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vantage Point
What a Jesuit saw at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. reports on the paradoxical brotherhood of polished Democrats and barefoot “hippies” in Chicago, 1968.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
As the Democratic Convention opens in Chicago, lessons from an eerily similar year: 1968
Public events take place today in 2024 that are eerily comparable to situations in another critical year: 1968. But our current situation, like 1968, is a moment when our faith can make a difference in history and in our own memories.
Posted inFaith and Reason, Politics & Society
Celebrities: We don’t care who you’re voting for
It is not selfish to do what you are good at and then to show a degree of humility about other things—including politics and other fields of expertise.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Edith Stein, Teresa of Ávila and what we’re willing to give for the truth
A Homily for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The Paris Olympics ‘Last Supper,’ the French Revolution and punching down on a Catholic minority
The display at the Olympics was not innocent fun gone too far or Europeans just being artsy. It was bullying a minority.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Remembering Gail Lumet Buckley, chronicler of African American history and a ‘pluralistic Catholic’
Gail Lumet Buckley, who died on July 18, was an award-winning chronicler of the African American experience. She once wrote of herself in ‘America’ that “I choose the cross of faith over the sword of ideology.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
‘We want them to go’: Spain is pushing Benedictine monks to leave Franco’s tomb, Spanish Civil War memorial
Spanish media reports that the ministry of culture is drafting a law that will expel monks. But that task will not be easy. The 21 monks do not wish to leave their monastery.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What the downfall of the Papal States can teach today’s Catholic integralists
A movement known as Catholic integralism has been enjoying something of a revival in contemporary American political thought, especially among Catholic critics of liberalism and modernity. But history tells us that integralism can be more harmful than helpful.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
Walter Ong: Do we live in a post-Christian age?
From 1996: “Catholics and other Christians need to take into more explicit account in their sense of existence in a universe of which they form a more and more operational part.”