Eastern Christian Books

I'm teaching an historiography course this semester and it is one of the most rewarding things I have done in a very long time. I have o...

Twenty years ago now, in his The Spirit of the Liturgy , then-Cardinal Ratzinger opined that Nicaea II's teachings against iconoclasm an...

I've sent some questions for an interview to Shaun Blanchard, author of the new and utterly fascinating book The Synod of Pistoia and Va...

I'm pleased to see a very affordable edition of a book I discussed in three parts  is now available from Oxford University Press: The Po...

When it's published at Catholic World Report , I'll post a link to my review of John O'Malley's superlative new study, Vatic...

For those interested in late-medieval history, this new book, just released from Amsterdam University Press, captures three of the most inte...

I have of course had a long-standing interest in the question of papal power, having written a book about it in light of Orthodox ecclesiol...

In three parts last fall, I discussed at length a fascinating book, T.A. Howard's magnificent study: The Pope and the Professor: Pius ...

The relative neglect of Vatican I by modern anglophone scholars has long amazed me--though the fact this council is so overwhelmingly outnum...

As I noted in the previous post , this fascinating and deeply learned book acutely portrays the tensions of 19th-century Catholicism, not ju...

As I noted here , this new book, The Pope and the Professor:Pius IX, Ignaz von Dollinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age , is a splendid...

T.A. Howard's newest book is a magnificent study: The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Dollinger, and the Quandary of the Mode...

The current debate in the Catholic Church about marriage, made much murkier by that needlessly sprawling and carelessly prolix mess of a doc...

Ten years ago now, in an early book to advance the recognition that papal relations to the Christian East are much more complicated than apo...

A fter having written something in 2015 about Rod Dreher's project of marketing MacIntyre's concluding (and regretted ) peroration...