Nicholas Frankovich

Today, Catholic bishops, laypeople, and the general public are more inclined to believe the testimony of someone who says he was sexually abused by a priest.

A review of That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation, by David Bentley Hart.

Pay attention when Antonius Block, the protagonist of The Seventh Seal, raises his eyes to scan the distance behind his opponent, Death.

A review of The Gospels, translated by Sarah Ruden.

Our great-grandchildren are liable to recognize our chauvinism and wonder.

Questions about disputed ownership had no direct bearing on the decision by the Jerusalem municipality to exercise eminent domain in Sheikh Jarrah last week.

If Pope Francis’s consecration of the two nations to the Immaculate Heart of Mary is followed by a break for Ukraine in Russia’s war on it, good.

The late pope blessed the church and the world with his intellect and holiness. Like his successor and recent predecessors, he struggled at governance.

John McGreevy calls his book, in the subtitle, ‘a global history.’ He’d be more precise to call it a history of how Catholicism became global, or catholic.

To note the difference between other genres and the essay is not to disparage the latter. It offers a wide-lens, right-brain perspective.