John Allen, Nonpareil ‘Vaticanista’
March 25, 2026
For many years, John Allen was the best Anglophone Vaticanista ever, a man of great kindness who graciously helped everyone...
George Weigel
Redemptor Hominis: Important As Ever
March 18, 2026
Forty-seven years ago, Pope John Paul II issued his first encyclical, “Redemptor hominis” (“The Redeemer of Man”).
Casaroli Myth vs. Historical Record
March 11, 2026
What John Paul observed to the General Council of the Polish episcopate in June 1979 — that Catholicism has effective...
Remembering Angelo Gugel
March 4, 2026
Angelo Gugel, the Papal Chamber Assistant to Popes John Paul I, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI, died at the...
Might Does Not Always Make Right
February 27, 2026
The “Melian Dialogue,” from Thucydides’ classic “History of the Peloponnesian War,” is the foundational text of the Realist school of...
Cardinal Dolan: By No Means Finished
February 18, 2026
Although he is no longer the archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, in good health and full of energy,...
P.D. James and Designer Dog Parkas
February 11, 2026
P.D. James’ detective novels, featuring Inspector Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, are every bit as gripping as those penned...
Fact-Checking The New Yorker
February 4, 2026
Back in the day, when the New Yorker set the standard for literary elegance among serious American journals, writers were...
The Evangelist in Stanley Prison
January 28, 2026
In a 1974 address to a group of lay Catholics, Pope Paul VI noted that “Modern man listens more willingly...
Semiquincentennial Prep With HBO
January 21, 2026
Having recently lamented in this space that book reading is on life support in these United States, I find myself...