The Fifty-Day Party
May 11, 2017
IF YOU CAN find it in your attic, open your old, pre-Vatican II missal, and look at the Sundays between...
George Weigel
Après Gorsuch le Deluge
May 4, 2017
DID YOU FIND the Gorsuch hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee a depressing exercise in political theater? Are you tired...
Jackie Robinson Changed America’s Heart and Mind
April 20, 2017
On the sapphire jubilee of Jackie Robinson's first game in the majors, America owes 42 an enormous round of applause...
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...
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...