A Memoir I Never Expected to Write
September 20, 2017
WHEN THE SECOND volume of my John Paul II biography, “The End and the Beginning,” was published in 2010, I...
George Weigel
A Conversation on Catholic Social Doctrine
September 13, 2017
CNN IS NOT the customary locale-of-choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine. But that’s what Paul Ryan, speaker of...
Superheroes? Stardust? Vessels of the Incarnation?
September 6, 2017
WHEN I WAS first introduced to the fascinations of the DNA double-helix in a biology class at Baltimore’s St. Paul...
Resist the Temptation to Domesticate God
August 30, 2017
SOME BIBLICAL SCHOLARS consider the Book of Deuteronomy to be a collection of sermons: catechetical homilies on the great theme...
Why Church Fights The Culture War
August 23, 2017
THOSE WHO PERSIST in denying that the Church is engaged in a culture war, the combatants in which are aptly...
Ecumenism and Influence-Envy
August 16, 2017
Defending the indefensible is never pretty. Or so we’re reminded by recent attempts from the portside of the Catholic commentariat...
Questions of Competence
August 9, 2017
IT’S A SAFE bet that 99.95 percent of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of La Civiltà Cattolica...
Are Jihadis “Losers”?
August 2, 2017
WHEN I FIRST visited Israel in 1988, my friend, Professor Menahem Milson, a distinguished Arabist at Hebrew University who was...
The Cooler Cold War
July 26, 2017
THE CLAIM THAT “the Cold War is over” and that the West needs a “new paradigm” for relations with Russia...
Is The Church Being Awkward? Or Wise?
July 19, 2017
Asked to name books that gave me the greatest intellectual jolt in recent decades, I’d quickly cite two.