Catholic ‘Beliefs’ and The Abortion Debate
September 22, 2021
Do Catholics “believe that human life begins at conception” — a formulation that’s become ubiquitous in recent weeks?
George Weigel
A Bold Catholic Investment In Inner-City Education
September 16, 2021
It’s a safe bet that “Mother Mary Lange” is not a household name in most U.S. Catholic circles. That unhappy...
The Mighty Pen of Father Paul Mankowski, SJ
September 8, 2021
In the summer before the Second Vatican Council opened, Pope John XXIII met with Cardinal Léon-Joseph Suenens in the papal...
Vatican Diplomacy Making a Difference
September 2, 2021
This past June 25, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States — usually dubbed the “Vatican’s...
Wanted: A Catholic Chaim Potok
August 25, 2021
In the three decades since the Revolution of 1989, Poland’s many cultural achievements include mastering the craft of creating the...
A Church in Mission or A Church in Meetings?
August 18, 2021
On the Solemnity of Christ the King in 2013, Pope Francis completed the work of the 2012 Synod of Bishops...
Pope Leo XIII & Contemporary Catholic Contentions
August 11, 2021
Given everything else going on these days, it may seem strange that a 129-year-old encyclical by Pope Leo XIII, founding...
Moral Courage and the Many Cultures of Death
August 5, 2021
Thanks to the pandemic, it’s been two years since I was last in Krakow, where for three decades I’ve done...
The Bishops, Donatism, And President Biden
July 29, 2021
In an article first posted at Commonweal and republished on July 7 in La Croix International, Professor John Thiel of...
Liberal Authoritarianism and The Traditional Latin Mass
July 22, 2021
I don’t agree that the Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Pius V in 1570 entombed the Roman Rite in ecclesiastical...