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...
George Weigel
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...
A Wartime Meditation
April 14, 2022
In both the Roman and Byzantine liturgical calendars, Lent 2022 has coincided with a brutal war in Ukraine. That war...
Salem and the Smoke of Satan
April 8, 2022
On May 13, 1982, Pope John Paul II flew to Portugal on a pilgrimage of thanksgiving for his life having...
Is There Ever A ‘Just War’?
April 1, 2022
Every war is a defeat for humanity, because men and women endowed with reason should be able to resolve their...
Russian Orthodox Awakening
March 23, 2022
For years, the two leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church with whom Pope Francis met by videoconference on March 16...
Archbishop Viganó Is Wrong on Ukraine
March 18, 2022
One of the minor characters in Evelyn Waugh’s World War II trilogy, “Sword of Honor,” is the commander of a...
Most Needed: An Ecumenical Reset
March 14, 2022
In the early 1990s, I met Kirill, now Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’, when the man christened Vladimir Mikhailovich...
Lent and the Liberating Light
March 3, 2022
If you’ve not been in the Vatican basilica on February 22, the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, by...