What We Need Now
What We Need Now seeks faithful, authentic reform of the Catholic Church. Our essays aim to help Church leaders (lay and clerical) pursue life-giving renewal
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Just War 101: Catholic Teaching for a Dangerous Moment
The story of Father George Zabelka, the military chaplain who blessed the Enola Gay crew before Hiroshima, and who spent the rest of his life wrestling publicly with it, is a story that I only recently came across.
Father George Zabelka wa...
Sex and Catholic Social Teaching
As someone who has long labored in the service of the Catholic Church’s teachings on fraught sexual expression topics, I think I understand Pope Leo XIV’s recent remarks on Catholic sexual morality in response to a reporter’s question about...
Catholic Education Needs Civic Formation
There is a movement afoot in American education to restore the teaching of civics in a way that presents America as lovable and worthy of its citizens’ service. The most prominent places to see this new movement at work is in the creation o...
Will Beauty Really Save the World?
Objective Beauty as an Argument for God
The late Pope Benedict XVI said that “art and the saints are the greatest apologetic for our faith.” This is because they both have the same basic root—beauty. It was the Russian Orthodox noveli...
Playthings, Zombies, and Bodily Hope
The ancients believed that we were the playthings of the gods. Today, we have become the playthings of men. Simone de Beauvoir put it starkly: modern man has become the “plaything of obscure forces.”1 There is a sense that forces we did not...
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