Baseball and Synod 2018
April 25, 2018
I trust it won’t cause heartburn among the editors of Commonweal if I confess to having cheered at a recent...
George Weigel
Roe v. Wade Derangement Syndrome
April 18, 2018
THE DEFENSE OF the indefensible often leads to a kind of derangement in otherwise rational people. That was the case...
Patriarch Kirill and Mr. Putin
April 11, 2018
THE ANNALS OF sycophancy are, alas, replete with examples of churchmen toadying to political power. Here in the United States,...
Air Turbulence and The Resurrection
April 5, 2018
If there’s anything Catholics in the United States should have learned over the past two decades, it’s that order –...
Memory, Identity and Patriotism
March 28, 2018
THE SECOND VOLUME of my biography of “St. John Paul II, The End and the Beginning,” benefited immensely from the...
Getting Ready for Synod 2018
March 22, 2018
THE HEADLINE ON a March 3 story on the Crux website was certainly arresting – “Cardinal on charges of rigged...
Learning from The White Rose
March 15, 2018
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS ago last month, Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Christian Probst were executed by guillotine at Munich’s...
Parsing the “T”
March 7, 2018
ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO, a friend took her son with her when she went to a beauty shop to get...
Rethinking the Idea of ‘Mission Territory’
February 28, 2018
IN HIS JUNE 1908 apostolic constitution, “Sapienti Consilio,” Pope Pius X decreed that, as of Nov. 3 that year, the...
Conscience and Grace: A Lenten Meditation
February 21, 2018
THE SCRIPTURE readings for Lent in the Church’s daily liturgy invite two related reflections. The weeks immediately preceding Easter call...