New Year’s Resolutions For Concerned Catholics
January 8, 2020
During and after the grim martial law period in the early 1980s, many freedom-minded Poles would greet each other on...
George Weigel
Christmas, Freedom And Obedience
December 23, 2019
On December 17, the day the first “O Antiphon” signaled the intensification of preparations for Christmas, the Church read the...
The Well-Fought Fight
December 18, 2019
The incorporation of Anglican hymnody into English-language Catholic worship is one of the great blessings of the past 50 years....
Give Some Books For Christmas
December 11, 2019
Resist the twitterization of thought — give books for Christmas! The following titles will delight, instruct, edify (or all of...
A Last Chance for Australian Justice
December 4, 2019
My late parents loved Cardinal George Pell, whom they knew for decades. So I found it a happy coincidence that,...
The Reformed Liturgy, 50 Years Later
November 27, 2019
Fifty years ago, on Nov. 30, 1969, the Catholic Church marked the First Sunday of Advent with the universal implementation...
Why Did the Wall Fall, 30 Years Ago?
November 20, 2019
November 9 marked the 30th anniversary of the peaceful breach of the Berlin Wall — the symbolic high point of...
The ‘Synodality’ Masquerade
November 13, 2019
During the 2001 Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, who’d suffered through a lot of synodal speechifying and...
Fearlessness and the U.S. Bishops in Rome
November 6, 2019
I once knew a Congregationalist minister — Yale Divinity School graduate, decorated World War II chaplain, veteran campaigner for then-unpopular...
A New Cardinal Honors An Entire Nation
October 30, 2019
ROME — Even the greatest enthusiasts of the present pontificate might not assert that Pope Francis has an inspiring liturgical...