The Ideological Hijacking of Pope St. John XXIII
October 23, 2019
ROME. With his liturgical memorial (October 11) falling on the fourth full day of the Special Synod for Amazonia, which...
George Weigel
Historical Clarity and Today’s Catholic Contentions
October 16, 2019
One of the curiosities of the 21st-century Catholic debate is that many Catholic traditionalists (especially integralists) and a high percentage...
What Kind of ‘Believers’?
October 9, 2019
This past June, I was in the Munich area for four days, giving a public lecture on Evangelical Catholicism and...
The Model New Evangelization Bishop
October 2, 2019
Out on the Kansas plains, he was just turning 21 when the Second Vatican Council promulgated its Dogmatic Constitution on...
Balderdash on the Tiber
September 25, 2019
Today’s first reading is from an explication of the academic program of the reconfigured Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute...
Ironies in the Fire
September 18, 2019
The eminent sociologist Peter Rossi was a world-class punster whose scholarly accomplishments fed a sometimes-whimsical view of the human condition...
Australian Justice In the Dock
September 11, 2019
Consider this sequence of events, familiar to some but evidently not to others:
As ‘The League’ Begins Its Centennial Season…
September 4, 2019
By the Gargantuan standards of the 21st-century National Football League, Gino Marchetti, who died this past April 29, was undersized...
Getting Beyond Darwin
August 21, 2019
Bishop Robert Barron and others working hard to evangelize the “Nones” — young adults without religious conviction — tell us...
Heroism and Priesthood, Dachau and Amazonia
August 14, 2019
In late June, I visited the concentration camp at Dachau, located in a wooded suburb a few miles from downtown...