Columnist: Ross Douthat

Excerpt from Ross Douthat's interview with Cardinal Burke: It was also in discussing the Amazonian synod that Burke brought up the specter that hangs over Francis-era debates, the idea of ...

Some years ago, when I was younger and somewhat more excitable, I wrote a series of essays about Pope Francis’s liberalizing efforts, arguing that the supreme pontiff’s choices risked a schism in the Catholic ...

For ordinary Catholics, the failures of their leaders have created a two-decade test of faith. Here is a striking fact about the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. The ...

One of the best things that the bishops of the American Catholic Church did during the great wave of sex abuse revelations 16 years ago — and yes, there’s a ...