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...
George Weigel
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...
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...
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...