The Irrepressible Midge Decter
July 22, 2022
About two-thirds of the way through that fine 1992 film, A League of Their Own, star catcher Dottie Hinson has...
George Weigel
The Lessons of Russian Warmaking
July 15, 2022
Four and a half months after Russia invaded Ukraine on the Orwellian pretext of displacing a “Nazi” regime — a...
Dobbs and the U.S. Vindication
July 5, 2022
Prior to June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court’s most important civil rights decision was handed down on May 17, 1954....
Demythologizing Papal Conclaves
June 17, 2022
Pope Francis’s recent announcement that he will create 21 new cardinals on August 27, 16 of whom would vote in...
Summer Reading on Ukraine: A Primer
June 8, 2022
Given the rubbish about Ukraine spewed out by Russian trolls and regurgitated by foolish or ideologically besotted Americans, this year’s...
Cardinal Zen And Jimmy Lai
May 25, 2022
Tertullian, the first major Christian theologian to write in Latin, is thought to have coined the maxim Semen est sanguis...
Dobbs Hysteria & Russian Disinfo
May 20, 2022
There are striking parallels between the Russian disinformation campaign that continues to foul the global communications space in the third...
New Patron Saint For Catholic News
May 11, 2022
As of May 15, Catholic journalists around the world will be able to count one of their number among the...
The Russian Path That Wasn’t Taken
May 4, 2022
I’ve been thinking about Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” and its relationship to a deceased Russian Orthodox priest.
The Fraternal Correction
April 21, 2022
In the golden age of the Catholic episcopate — the days of great Church Fathers like Cyprian of Carthage and...