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The Other American ‘Popes’

Before Leo XIV, the weird, century-long history of Americans claiming to be pope.

by Daniel N. Gullotta via The Bulwark on May 30, 2025

A preacher preaches to Union soldiers in the Civil War.

Confession Eclipsed

On the rise and fall of confession in American Catholicism, and what the demography of today's Catholics says about the future of the faith.

by James F. Keating via First Things on March 19, 2025

American Catholic book cover

Americanism and the ‘Roman’ Catholic

Daniel James Sundahl reviews D. G. Hart’s American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War.

by Daniel James Sundahl via The Russell Kirk Center on February 27, 2022

Joe Biden walking in a church cemetery

Joe Biden's Harshest Critics Are Likely To Be Some of His Fellow Catholics

The fight between Biden and conservative Catholics will be about more than policy.

by Theresa Keeley via Made By History on November 30, 2020

Interior of St Andrew's Catholic Church in Roanoke, Virginia

Roman Catholic Dioceses in North America

How mapping Roman Catholic dioceses illustrates key concepts of religious ecologies at a continental scale.

by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media via American Religious Ecologies on May 20, 2019

The Real Reason the Catholic Church Remains Plagued by Abuse Scandals

In the wake of abuse scandals, lay people, not priests, should have more power.

by William S. Cossen via Made By History on August 23, 2018

500 Years Ago Christianity Changed. It Changed Again in the 1960s.

That the 500th anniversary of Luther’s act has been noted without éclat may be something to celebrate.

by Patrick Lacroix via HNN on October 28, 2017

A Group of Catholics Has Charged Pope Francis with Heresy. Here’s Why That Matters

It's not that they're attacking him. It's what they're attacking him for.

by Erin Bartram, William S. Cossen via Made By History on October 16, 2017

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