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...
George Weigel
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...
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...
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...