Paul Baumann

For better and worse, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s language is a thing of the past. But it might be useful to recover his conviction that God can guide our will if we are open to such promptings.

Boomer Christianity may be dying, but the prospect of its being replaced by the old Crusader Christianity is dead on arrival.

Trump is the sort of miser you come across in some especially ghoulish fairy tale. Will he ever get his comeuppance?

Patricia Lockwood's latest claims to report “on the state of American Catholicism,” but her essay is ultimately a caricature tailored for the misconceptions of secular readers.

When Greg Grandin reduces Gustavo Gutiérrez and Pope Benedict XVI to political figures, he neglects what's most important about their work.

"On many days I wish I liked Catholics more, and I guess I wish my fellow Catholics had liked me more."