Cardinal Pell at 80: His voice will be heard
June 17, 2021
Fifteen months ago, it looked as if Cardinal George Pell might spend his 80th birthday in prison. A malicious trolling...
George Weigel
30 Years of Work and Conversation in Poland
June 11, 2021
It was a two-week whirlwind that changed my life forever, that first visit of mine to Poland in June 1991....
The Oldest Cathedral, The Newest Challenge
June 3, 2021
It’s now the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but for native Baltimoreans...
The Healer: Paul McHugh at 90
May 27, 2021
One of the adornments of American Catholicism turned 90 on May 21: Dr. Paul R. McHugh, longtime head of psychiatry...
A Most Unfortunate Roman Intervention
May 19, 2021
Cardinal Ladaria’s letter includes statements that are not self-evidently clear, in part because they seem inconsistent with what the congregation...
Vatican II on Catholics In Public Life
May 13, 2021
The Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (often referenced by its Latin title, Gaudium...
Gaia, False Gods, and Public Policy
May 5, 2021
Is ours a secular world? Or is it a world that’s traded authentic religion for a modern form of idolatry...
What Would Cardinal Meyer Say?
April 29, 2021
Unfortunately forgotten in most U.S. Catholic circles today, Cardinal Albert Gregory Meyer, archbishop of Milwaukee from 1953 to 1958 and...
Hans Küng and The Perils of Fame
April 21, 2021
Hans Küng certainly had talent. His doctoral dissertation on Karl Barth, arguably the greatest of 20th-century Protestant theologians, became a...
God’s Harsh and Dreadful Love
April 15, 2021
The Paschal Triduum this year seemed like a return from exile: Holy Thursday’s Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, in...