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...
George Weigel
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...
What’s Changed Since “Humanae Vitae”?
November 29, 2017
Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University is hosting a lecture series to mark the 50th anniversary of “Humanae Vitae.” The series promises...
A Museum For Which To Be Thankful
November 22, 2017
ON SEPT. 29, 1952, the publication of the complete Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible was celebrated at the...
As The Bard Might Say
November 15, 2017
FOUR CENTURIES AFTER his death, Shakespeare remains a peerless playwright because of his remarkable insight into the human condition. Love,...
You Have to Decide
November 8, 2017
IN WRITING “Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II,” one of my secondary intentions was to...
Murderers’ Row, Soviet-style
November 1, 2017
ONE HUNDRED years ago, on Nov. 7, 1917, Lenin and his Bolshevik Party expropriated the chaotic Russian people’s revolution that...
Which Reformation? What Reform?
October 25, 2017
Despite the formulation you’ll hear before and after the October 31 quincentenary of Luther’s 95 theses, there was no single...
Whose Bourgeois Morality
October 19, 2017
IN THE LATEST debate over “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on marriage and family, a fervent defender of the...