Ross Douthat
Confessions of a post-Vatican II Reform rabbi
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 14, 2022
(RNS) — When we make religion easier and more convenient, what evaporates in the process?
Getting hip to Dimes Square Catholicism is the latest way to own the libs
By Jacob Lupfer — August 11, 2022
(RNS) — Rome, packaged as a trend item for the trust-fund literary set, will never win converts.
Ross Douthat: Lyme disease, Catholic suffering and the frontiers of medicine and faith
By Jana Riess — February 18, 2022
(RNS) — Seven years ago, Ross Douthat began a sudden descent to a hellish nightmare of chronic pain. He recounts his experiences of illness and faith in the beautiful memoir "Deep Places."
Could Catholic moral theology light the way for a new GOP?
By Charles C. Camosy — January 6, 2021
(RNS) — The party is realigning around a religious, multiethnic, working-class populism, and Catholic thought could provide an ideological foundation.
Five things Kanye knows
By Charles C. Camosy — November 6, 2019
(RNS) — Kanye's new album 'Jesus Is King' has caused a stir for its author's conversion, but what lessons does it offer about faith?
Traditional Christians provoke debate within a new conservative coalition
By Charles C. Camosy — June 10, 2019
(RNS) — Despite a public space rigged against their version of the good, traditional Christians do manage to convince people with very different views of the truth of their claims.
What’s wrong with American Catholicism
By Mark Silk — November 19, 2018
It's not just about American Catholicism.
Is schism possible in the Catholic Church?
By Thomas Reese — November 12, 2018
(RNS) — There is talk of schism as the American bishops meet in Baltimore this week, but In order to have a schism, you need truly divisive issues that split the community.
The pope, his critics and theirs
By Martin E. Marty — April 17, 2018
The Church has always included many kinds of interests and factions, and a prime task for historians and social chroniclers is to assess their power and intentions.
5 years of Francis and his gritty Catholicism
By John Gehring — March 12, 2018
(RNS) — Francis critics have worked themselves into a frenzy because the first Jesuit pope prioritizes discernment and pastoral theology over a one-size-fits-all rigidity when it comes to the application of doctrine, writes John Gehring.
5 years of Francis: Prominent pope watchers debate his legacy
By Jack Jenkins — January 31, 2018
NEW YORK (RNS) — At one of the country's most elite Catholic universities, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat — a Francis critic — sparred with Villanova University theology professor Massimo Faggioli — a Francis fan.
Infallibility and heresy
By Martin E. Marty — December 6, 2016
Not since certain American Protestants were publicly anti-Catholic, as older readers may remember them having been, have we read as many headlines with words like “infallibility,” “heresy,” papal “plots,” “schism,” etc., as we do these days.
Is the pope Catholic?
By David Gibson — April 20, 2016
NEW YORK (RNS) Francis’ papacy prompts a debate, and it’s no joke.
Are churches failing the poor? Yes and no (ANALYSIS)
By Jacob Lupfer — May 21, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) Jesus told the rich young ruler to sell all his possessions and give the money to the poor. Surely comfortable churchgoers must do more than say, “Be more like me.”
Pope Francis has conservatives talking schism. But a split is easier said than done
By David Gibson — November 4, 2014
(RNS) So is a schism, with its echoes of medieval debates and heretics burning at the stake, a realistic possibility? And can an independent Catholic church be successful in the modern world?
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