Catholicism Embodied: ‘The Pivotal Players’
November 9, 2016
LOOKLING FOR SOME uplift after this tawdry election cycle? Some inspiration for tackling what lies ahead? A good way to...
George Weigel
Catholic WikiLeaks Are No Big Deal
November 2, 2016
AT THE RISK of causing cardiac distress or cerebral incidents among the bloggers of the Catholic left, let me begin...
Russian Orthodoxy’s Aggressive Obsessions
October 26, 2016
by George Weigel WHAT DOES THE Lord’s injunction to turn the other cheek require when it comes to ecumenical dialogue?...
Changing the Game
October 19, 2016
FOR THOSE OF US who find it impossible to cast a vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump on...
Golden Memories of a Golden Anniversary
October 12, 2016
After Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium was torn down in the old hometown in 2002, I began describing the vast empty space...
Speaking of ‘Deplorables’
September 29, 2016
You’d think presidential candidates would have learned that shooting from the lip in front of deep-pocket donors is asking for...
The Vatican, China and Evangelical Prudence
September 21, 2016
Recent remarks by the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, have fueled speculation about a possible exchange of diplomatic...
They’re Confessors, Not ‘Culture-Warriors’
September 14, 2016
LIKE SHELBY FOOTE’S three-volume masterpiece, “The Civil War: A Narrative,” Francis Parkman’s seven-volume colossus, “France and England in North America,”...
Quebec: Catholicism’s Empty Quarter
September 7, 2016
Québec, a flourishing Catholic region for centuries, is now Catholicism’s empty quarter in the western hemisphere. There is no more...
He’s Not ‘Turning His Back to the People’
August 31, 2016
Cardinal Robert Sarah caused a rumpus this summer by proposing that the Catholic Church return to the practice of priest...