A Bishop of Consequence
April 12, 2017
WHEN I FIRST MET Bishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., more than 20 years ago, I was struck by his...
George Weigel
The Reality of Revelation
April 5, 2017
EVELYN WAUGH’S SLIM and critically unappreciated novel, “Helena,” was something of a literary experiment for a modern master of English...
On ‘Owning’ the Church
March 29, 2017
The question of “who owns the Church” has had a stormy history in Catholic America, although the terms of reference...
Persuasive Disciples, Not Anarchic Disrupters
March 22, 2017
WE ARE LIVING through a dangerous moment in our national life, of an intensity and potential for destruction unseen since...
A New Lenten Discipline
March 15, 2017
FOR LENT 2016, I adopted a new Forty Days discipline in addition to intensified prayer, daily almsgiving and letting my...
A Lent to Remember
March 8, 2017
THE BEST LENT OF my life involved getting up every day at 5:30 a.m., hiking for miles through ankle-twisting, cobblestoned...
A Modest Defense of the ‘Liberal World Order’
March 1, 2017
I think liberal democracy is in grave danger... And yet I think there are things that can and must be...
Paul, Apollos and Cephas, All Over Again
February 22, 2017
IN APRIL 2016, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth, England, issued a pastoral letter on the interpretation of “Amoris Laetitia” (the...
Synod-talk, Again
February 15, 2017
ON JAN. 13 THE General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops published a “preparatory document” for the 2018 Synod on...
A Papal Tutor of Heroic Virtue
February 8, 2017
ON JAN. 20, Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to publish decrees acknowledging the “heroic virtues”...