Pork Roll, Lent and Catholic Identity
February 14, 2018
A FEW WEEKS before Ash Wednesday, an Associated Press squib with Lenten implications appeared in the Washington Post sports section:
George Weigel
Men Without Conviction, Churches Without People
February 7, 2018
EUROPE’S WHOLESALE abandonment of its Christian faith is often explained as the inevitable by-product of modern social, economic and political...
Catholic Church Doesn’t Do ‘Paradigm Shifts’
January 31, 2018
It was unfortunate that Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, recently described “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on...
An Homage to Don Briel
January 24, 2018
IN THE HISTORY of U.S. Catholic higher education since World War II, three seminal moments stand out: Msgr. John Tracy...
‘Equilibrium’ and Ignominy
January 18, 2018
THIS PAST DEC. 18, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the department of external relations of the Russian Orthodox Church,...
Recompense for a Serious Mistake
January 10, 2018
I WON’T VENTURE into classical Roman literature, which is not my forte, but I will say with assurance that the...
Viva Cristo Rey (Schools)!
January 3, 2018
IN THE 1920S, when the United States had a quasi-Stalinist regime on its southern border, “Viva Cristo Rey!” was the...
The Crèche and Life in The Gap
December 20, 2017
FOR THE PAST decade or so, I’ve been assembling a mid-sized Judean village of Fontanini crèche figures, including artisans, herders...
Books for Christmas
December 13, 2017
IT’S BEEN A good year for publishing – at least in the sense of a lot of good books getting...
A Meditation on ‘Maranatha’
December 6, 2017
HAPPY (REAL) new year: the beginning of a new year of grace, which began Dec. 3 with the First Sunday...