Take a stand against the electrification of reading and consider the following, in properly bound form, as gifts for those on your Christmas – not “holiday” – list:
Author: George Weigel
Defending Pope Francis By Slandering Church
IF THE CIVIL NEW YEAR is an occasion to resolve to “do better” in the future, the liturgical new year, the real new year that begins at First Vespers on the First Sunday of Advent, is an even better moment for such resolutions. So permit me to suggest a Real New Year’s resolution to those who think it necessary to support Pope Francis by rewriting recent Church history: Stop it.
The Real Thomas More’s Final Act of Thanksgiving
Sir Thomas More bore witness and ultimately “grasped his death,” not to vindicate his sense of self, but as the final and ultimate act of thanks for his having been grasped – and saved – by Truth itself, the Thrice-Holy God.
Catholicism Embodied: ‘The Pivotal Players’
LOOKLING FOR SOME uplift after this tawdry election cycle? Some inspiration for tackling what lies ahead? A good way to enrich Advent? Examples of sanctity to help you be the missionary disciple you were baptized to be? Then let me recommend Bishop Robert Barron’s new DVD series, “Catholicism: The Pivotal Players.”
Catholic WikiLeaks Are No Big Deal
AT THE RISK of causing cardiac distress or cerebral incidents among the bloggers of the Catholic left, let me begin by saying that I agree with the claim that the recent WikiLeaks dump of “Catholic e-mails” from the higher altitudes of the Clinton Machine is no big deal. But if so, why not?
Russian Orthodoxy’s Aggressive Obsessions
by George Weigel WHAT DOES THE Lord’s injunction to turn the other cheek require when it comes to ecumenical dialogue? The question regularly poses itself to those familiar with the website of the Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC): https://mospat.ru/en.
Changing the Game
FOR THOSE OF US who find it impossible to cast a vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump on Nov. 8, this poem by Artur Miedzyrzecki, written during Poland’s Solidarity revolution, has a certain resonance:
Golden Memories of a Golden Anniversary
After Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium was torn down in the old hometown in 2002, I began describing the vast empty space left behind as “the abomination of desolation.” That old brick horseshoe was where I learned baseball from my grandfather Weigel in the late 1950s – and where, a half-century ago, I had a foretaste of the joy of the Kingdom.
Speaking of ‘Deplorables’
You’d think presidential candidates would have learned that shooting from the lip in front of deep-pocket donors is asking for trouble.
The Vatican, China and Evangelical Prudence
Recent remarks by the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, have fueled speculation about a possible exchange of diplomatic representation between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China (PRC).