There’s a style of liberal Catholic argument that denies that it’s seeking real changes in church teaching, that insists that it just wants a different emphasis — less talk about sex ...

But a growing movement seeks to introduce students to the Church’s rich heritage of the traditional liberal arts before the university level, and programs like the Institute for Catholic Liberal ...

As I indicated in my remarks responding to Trish, I had assumed all along that liberal Catholics wanted to liberalize Catholic doctrine — that they wanted to bring the church, as I wrote in TNR ...

Now, Pope Leo XIV, the church’s new leader and ... was essentially both a conservative and a liberal, by American standards, at the same time, as Catholic writer James T. Keane argued in 2021.

At a Catholic university recently I listened ... major goal of the “ecumenical,” the “relevant,” the “liberal” church) is thoroughly laudable, denying these differences, as do many ...

In other words, the secular contrast between “liberal” and “conservative” doesn’t work inside the Catholic Church, at least in its most senior ranks, because a distinction that ends up ...

“The liberal ordering of the world is exhausting ... Post-liberalism — and the related, though more explicitly Catholic, political theory of Church-state relations known as integralism ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage, lobby for ordaining women as priests or spark a liberal revolution in the Catholic Church. The pontiff, who died Monday at the age of 88 ...