Thanksgiving and the Paradox of Death
November 25, 2020
The juxtaposition of Thanksgiving with the Church’s annual month of prayer for the dead hadn’t previously struck me with force;...
George Weigel
Hard Lessons of the McCarrick Affair
November 18, 2020
The McCarrick Report did not, it turns out, please everyone, even as the world press weirdly turned it into an...
An Open Letter to the People of ‘Courage’
November 11, 2020
So, brave men and women of “Courage,” thank you for your witness. Please continue to take up the challenge that...
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...
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...