The High-Priced Spread, Revisited
April 3, 2019
Readers of a certain vintage (say, over 60) will remember the Imperial Margarine TV ad that dismissed butter as “the...
George Weigel
An Open Letter to Cardinal Reinhard Marx
March 27, 2019
YOUR EMINENCE:I noted with interest your recent announcement of a “binding synodal process” during which the Church in Germany will...
A Tale of Two Georges
March 20, 2019
WHEN A POPE IS ELECTED, the cardinals who have just chosen him make their way to the Hall of Benedictions...
Vindicating Cardinal Pell
March 13, 2019
CARDINAL GEORGE Pell’s December 2018 conviction on charges of “historic sexual abuse” was a travesty of justice, thanks in part...
Our Dreyfus Case
March 6, 2019
IN DECEMBER 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French Army was convicted of treason on the grounds that he had...
Ukrainian-American Bishop Comes Home
February 27, 2019
IN THE MID-1980S, my wife and I were invited to a baptism and post-christening reception at the home of the...
‘Synodality’ and the Rome Abuse Summit
February 20, 2019
Despite Pope Francis’ lecture on the subject at Synod-2015, and notwithstanding the passages on it in Synod-2018’s final report, there...
Authoritative Slur to Shun Opposition: Un-American
February 13, 2019
FIRST CIRCULATED underground in communist Czechoslovakia in October 1978, Vaclav Havel’s brilliant dissection of totalitarianism, “The Power of the Powerless,”...
The Moral Depravity of Cuomo and Friends
February 6, 2019
WRITING RECENTLY on women seeking the presidency and the “likability” factor in our politics, Peggy Noonan made a tart observation:...
The Courageous Honesty Of Peter Steinfels
January 30, 2019
PETER STEINFELS’ long career in journalism included years of service as editor of Commonweal (from which perch he took me...