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...
George Weigel
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...
The Truth About Ukraine Strife
February 24, 2022
For months now, the world press has described Russian troop deployments along Ukraine’s borders as spearheads of a possible invasion....
Liquid Catholicism & the German Synodal Path
February 17, 2022
Twenty years ago, during the Long Lent of 2002, I began using the term “Catholic Lite” to describe a project...
Undercutting Vatican II to Defend Vatican II?
February 10, 2022
Archbishop Arthur Roach, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship, recently sent the world’s bishops instructions regulating local usage...