Why we Are Where we Are
August 26, 2020
It’s hard, verging on impossible, to imagine the president-to-be-inaugurated next January summoning the country to national unity through magnanimity because...
George Weigel
Rediscovering Eucharistic Amazement
August 19, 2020
In his 2003 encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church from the Eucharist), Pope St. John Paul II invited Catholics to...
Rediscovering the Reality of the Eucharist
August 12, 2020
The dumbing down of the theology of symbols has, however, led to the unhappy situation in which perhaps a majority...
AM[D]G
August 5, 2020
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam [For the greater glory of God], often reduced to the abbreviation, AMDG, was the Latin motto...
The Next Pope and the Crisis of the West
July 29, 2020
In February 1968, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła wrote Father Henri de Lubac, SJ, about a project in which the cardinal was...
The Next Pope and Vatican Diplomacy
July 22, 2020
During a short papal flight from Boston to New York on October 2, 1979, Father Jan Schotte (later a cardinal...
The Next Pope and Vatican II
July 15, 2020
Polemics about the Second Vatican Council continue to bedevil the Catholic conversation. Some Catholics, often found in the Churches of...
Books for the Summer Of Our Discontent
July 7, 2020
Since plague time began, I’ve found the following books reassuring, challenging, illuminating, and in some cases just plain fun: which...
Will Nancy Pelosi Take a Page From Her Father’s Playbook?
June 24, 2020
In 1918, Mayor James Preston presented a 264-piece silver service to Cardinal James Gibbons on behalf of Baltimore and its...
The Biases of a Royal Commission
June 18, 2020
A brief dip into Latin helps us understand how preconceptions can lead to biased judgments that falsify history — as...