Light From the East
April 7, 2021
Ten years ago last month, the Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church took a striking decision: it elected its...
George Weigel
The Heirs of the Easter Explosion
March 31, 2021
Let me adapt to recent circumstances a thought-experiment theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar proposed decades ago: Imagine that a friend...
Good News After a Very Bad Year
March 25, 2021
There is no need to belabor the awfulness of the year of lockdowns, shutdowns, and other downers that began in...
Woke ‘Rights’ and the Equality Act
March 17, 2021
On February 25, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives could have addressed any number of pressing issues. The nation was...
The World Episcopate and The German Apostasy
March 10, 2021
As the names Ambrose, Augustine, Athanasius, and John Chrysostom suggest, the middle centuries of the first millennium, the era of...
Cardinal Pell and the Squirming Catholics
March 3, 2021
According to the movie “Love Story,” “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Typical Hollywood fluff, you might say....
Remembering Lives Of Consequence
February 24, 2021
All lives are consequential, for every human being is an idea of God’s, and everyone is a someone for whom...
Reflecting on Exodus, Lent, And Becoming a True Nation
February 17, 2021
Ten years ago, I began a most extraordinary Lent by walking up the Aventine Hill to the Basilica of Santa...
From Christendom Times to Apostolic Times
February 10, 2021
Thirty years ago, on January 22, 1991, Pope John Paul II’s eighth encyclical, Redemptoris Missio (The Mission of the Redeemer),...
The Challenge of Eucharistic Coherence
February 3, 2021
In his encyclical, “Ecclesia de Eucharistia,” Pope St. John Paul II invited Catholics to “rekindle” our sense of “Eucharistic amazement,”...