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 ...

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 ...

Since the 1960s, the Catholic Church has swung from the adoption of more liberal principles in the Second Vatican Council to the 35 years of Cold War conservatism espoused by Popes John Paul II ...

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 ...

Yet his account of his conversion to the Catholic Church, published in 2020 in the magazine The Lamp, marks him as very much ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.