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...
George Weigel
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,”...
The Holy See and Thug Regimes
January 27, 2021
The list of grave issues that must be addressed during a future papal interregnum, and by the cardinal-electors in a...
President Biden and a Catholic Inflection Point
January 21, 2021
Catholics who take this apostolic teaching seriously will understand that our first obligation toward President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., is...
Thoughts on a Pro-Life Picket Line
January 4, 2021
One of Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s “Clinics for Abortion & Reproductive Excellence” — named to yield the Orwellian acronym CARE —...
What the Magi Teach Us Here
December 23, 2020
Among the tenured professorial skeptics, few Gospel episodes have been sliced, diced, and tossed to the dissecting room floor as...
Failure to Defend the Caged And Evangelization in China
December 16, 2020
Joshua Wong is a young Chinese human rights activist, recently sentenced to 13 and a half months in prison on...
Those Who Question the Sanctity of John Paul II
December 9, 2020
From 1991 until 2005, Cardinal Camillo Ruini served Pope John Paul II as the papal Vicar for Rome — the...
Books to Read This Christmas
December 2, 2020
How bad a year has it been? Let me not count the ways. Good books can hearten us in 2021...