Ross Douthat, Author at Catholic Herald

Ross Douthat

Jesus and the Pharisees: an extract from Ross Douthat’s ‘To Change the Church’

April 06, 2018

Jesus transcended ritualistic legalism - but not the Ten Commandments

Book extract: Who are the real Pharisees?

April 05, 2018

There is a recurring theme in the papal rhetoric of the Francis era. To insist on the moral law too forcefully, the Pope and his allies often suggest, is to be like the Pharisees. Those “doctors of the law”, to borrow from a representative papal sermon, did not “consider people’s lives but only their own

The conservative Catholic crack-up

January 14, 2016

Let’s begin with a story. It’s one I’ve heard many times; it’s one I’ve told more than a few times myself. It’s a story about the Catholic Church in the second half of the 20th century, and it goes something like this. Once, some 50 years ago, there was an Ecumenical Council of the Church. Its

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