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...
George Weigel
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”...
Theology Isn’t Math; But It Is Theology
February 1, 2017
DURING THE HEYDAY of the Solidarity movement, a famous Polish slogan had it that, “For Poland to be Poland, 2...
Fake History
January 25, 2017
SPEAKING OF PUBLIC policy debates, Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said that, while everyone had a right to his opinion, no...
Lessons from an Era of Confusion
January 18, 2017
In the introduction to “Aggiornamento on the Hill of Janus: The American College in Rome, 1955-1979,” Msgr. Stephen M. DiGiovanni...
A ‘Merciless Assault on Human Dignity’
January 11, 2017
THE ARCHBISHOP OF Toronto is given to deprecating himself as “just a simple country cardinal.”
New Year’s Wishes for Some Catholic Brethren
January 4, 2017
2017 PROMISES to be a challenging year for the Catholic Church. Thus some new year’s wishes: I wish Catholic progressives...
Christmas and The Divine Proximity
December 21, 2016
IN OCTOBER 2001, I had a long conversation with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. It was but weeks after 9/11; a new...
The Persecution of Professor Esolen
December 14, 2016
by George Weigel PROFESSOR ANTHONY Esolen is a bright jewel in the crown of Catholic higher education in the U.S.,...