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