The indefatigable John Allen’s latest column examines the trend of “evangelical Catholicism” in the Church. He makes a number of points about this movement, which he describes as “a strong reassertion of traditional Catholic identity coupled with an impulse to express that identity in the public realm.”
Perhaps most notably, and counter to the prevailing narrative, [...]

There are worse ways to mark the passing of Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, than by taking to heart these words from an unpublished interview by John Allen:
I began by explaining the gist of my project, which is to identify the most important forces shaping the future of the Catholic church over the next 100 years. [...]

The phrase was originally coined by John Allen to describe the particular theological trajectory of Pope Benedict XVI:
By “affirmative orthodoxy,” I mean a tenacious defense of the core elements of classic Catholic doctrine, but presented in a relentlessly positive key. Benedict appears convinced that the gap between the faith and contemporary secular culture, which Paul [...]