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,”...
George Weigel
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...
Joe Biden Is Father Isaac Hecker’s Fault?
August 24, 2016
U.S. Catholics generally know little about the Church’s history in our country. But whether you’re trying to fill gaps in...
God and Brexit
August 19, 2016
I’d like to suggest another, perhaps deeper, answer to the question of the EU’s current distress: to put it bluntly,...
Homelessness, Party-style
July 28, 2016
I grew up in what you might call a genetically Democratic family, but one in which partisan heterodoxy was not...
The Ostpolitik Failed; Get Over It
July 20, 2016
The default positions guiding Vatican diplomacy these days badly need re-setting. That re-set must begin with a frank recognition that,...
The Virtue Deficit in US Political Culture
July 14, 2016
Had I the resources, the one new book I’d give every delegate to the national political conventions meeting later this...
A Cinematic Lesson In Hope
June 29, 2016
Summoning memories of a time when the good folks won, cleanly and against all the odds, is the singular accomplishment...
The Confessions of a Political Elitist
June 23, 2016
The term “elitist” has been bandied about so promiscuously in this election cycle that it’s become virtually content-free. Yet “elitist”...