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....
George Weigel
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...
Two Families and the Communion of Saints
February 2, 2022
Despite being immersed for over 30 years in the study of modern Polish history, I must confess that I’d never...
Russia, Ukraine, And Moral Reckoning
January 26, 2022
There have been vast improvements in the techniques and technology of filmmaking since 1961, when Stanley Kramer made “Judgment at...
Marching Toward A Different Future
January 21, 2022
The annual March for Life in Washington began in 1974 — and it’s hard to think of a more admirable...
Who Invented The Individual?
January 13, 2022
A common misconception holds that early “modernity” invented the “individual”: the idea that everyone is a someone with a unique...
The Sacred Earthiness Of Christmas
December 23, 2021
Christianity begins in a real place, at a specific point in time in which real men and women met an...
USCCB Certainly Had A Stance on Abortion
December 16, 2021
When I began working with some regularity in Rome thirty years ago, my elders and betters taught me that no...
From Germany in 1936 to Beijing 2022
December 9, 2021
In July 2016, as we were sitting on the fantail of the Swiss sidewheeler Rhone while she chugged across Lake...