Three Models of Priestly Goodness
November 5, 2020
The Pandemic of 2020 has been hard on every Catholic. Eucharistic fasting for this length of time may remind us...
George Weigel
Prudential Voting in Bad Times
October 28, 2020
Sixty years ago, Father John Courtney Murray, SJ, published what I regard as the finest Catholic analysis of American democracy...
Biden, Pre-Conciliar Catholic?
October 21, 2020
The image of the pre-conciliar Catholic Church in the United States as catechetically effective and politically potent can be hard...
The Hard Road of National Renewal
October 14, 2020
The statement challenges the national drift toward concentrations of political and economic power while affirming the importance for a healthy...
The Toxic Waste of Roe v. Wade
October 7, 2020
Defending Roe’s abortion license has become imperative for the Democratic Party. And because of that, far too many Catholic politicians,...
Truman’s Terrible Choice, 75 Years ago
September 30, 2020
Three U.S. Navy officers look out at me from a small, black-and-white snapshot, taken in Sasebo, Japan, on September 26,...
The Providential Demise Of the Papal States
September 23, 2020
The loss of the Papal States was a great boon to the papacy and to the Church’s evangelical mission, and...
A Man Remarkable for Strengthening Others
September 16, 2020
When the choirs of angels led Father Paul Mankowski, S.J., into the Father’s House on Sept. 3, I hope the...
Religious Freedom: Bleached, Blanched, and Rinsed Out
September 9, 2020
Those who point out that the 2020 Democratic platform has the most radical pro-abortion plank in American history, and that...
Christ at the Center Of the Council
September 2, 2020
Conversations with Father Robert Imbelli have been a great blessing in recent years. I have rarely met a more even-tempered...