Having Courage in the Slough of Despond
October 3, 2018
I NEVER TOOK a class from historian Frank Orlando, but the motto he placed in the faculty section of my...
George Weigel
Putin, Orthodoxy and the ‘Vatican Bogeyman’
September 26, 2018
WHILE CATHOLICISM HAS been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the highest levels of...
Maintenance vs. Mission
September 19, 2018
In pondering the reform of the episcopate for the future, the distinction between maintenance and mission should be at the...
Saving Synod 2018 From Itself
September 12, 2018
ANYONE LOOKING FOR a remedy for insomnia might try working through the Instrumentum Laboris (IL), or “working document,” for the...
Full Immersion Catholicism
September 5, 2018
AS THIS CATHOLIC annus horribilis continues to unfold, perhaps some good news is in order; first, a little background.
Why We Stay and The Vigano Testimony
August 29, 2018
In the immediate aftermath of Archbishop Carlo-Maria Vigano’s “Testimony,” and its statement that Pope Francis knew of the dereliction of...
Fackenheim’s Law and the Current Catholic Crisis
August 22, 2018
Catholics filled with righteous anger over the vile behavior of the former archbishop of Washington, Theodore McCarrick, and Catholics determined...
WYD 1993: A Turning Point in US Catholicism
August 16, 2018
On the 25th anniversary of World Youth Day in Denver, Colo., I can’t help sharing one of my favorite personal...
Friday Mornings Without Charles Krauthammer
August 9, 2018
TAKE MY WORD FOR IT: You don’t want to be around me at breakfast. I am not a chipper morning...
Affirming Humanae Vitae
August 1, 2018
JULY 25 WAS THE 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical on the integrity of love and the...