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...
George Weigel
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...
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:
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...