A Pastor in Full: Father Jay Scott Newman
July 18, 2018
ALMOST A QUARTER-CENTURY AGO, Father Jay Scott Newman, back in Rome to finish a graduate degree after his priestly ordination...
George Weigel
Enjoyable, Instructive Summer Reading
July 11, 2018
The vacation season is an opportunity to escape TwitterWorld and do some serious reading. These books will help make your...
Acts of the Apostles in The Modern World
June 28, 2018
The Church’s custom of reading virtually all of the Acts of the Apostles at daily Mass during the Easter season...
Nationality and Papacy
June 20, 2018
WITH HUNDREDS OF bishops coming to the Vatican in October 2001 for a Synod, I decided to spend that month...
Ireland Is Mission Territory Once Again
June 13, 2018
I WASN’T SURPRISED by the result of Ireland’s May 25 referendum, which opened a path to legal abortion in the...
Craving Approval Is Not Evangelizing
June 6, 2018
THE BIZARRE COMMENT and the weird gesture have not, until recently, been associated with high-ranking churchmen. Both, alas, were on...
Grace Under Pressure
May 30, 2018
A CHAPTER IN a remarkable American and Catholic life will close on June 6, when Abbot Thomas Frerking, O.S.B., concludes...
Justin Trudeau and the Dictatorship of Relativism
May 23, 2018
You’ve probably never heard of the Waupoos Family Farm. I hadn’t either, until I met folks involved in it during...
Freedom Is Never Free
May 10, 2018
WHEN I FIRST visited Lviv, the principal city of western Ukraine in 2002, the transportation from plane to airport terminal...
A Diverse College of Strangers
May 2, 2018
WITH THE EXCEPTION of the two consistories held by Pope John XXIII in 1958 and 1959, every creation of new...