Fact-Checking The New Yorker
February 4, 2026
Back in the day, when the New Yorker set the standard for literary elegance among serious American journals, writers were...
George Weigel
The Evangelist in Stanley Prison
January 28, 2026
In a 1974 address to a group of lay Catholics, Pope Paul VI noted that “Modern man listens more willingly...
Semiquincentennial Prep With HBO
January 21, 2026
Having recently lamented in this space that book reading is on life support in these United States, I find myself...
Secularism, Security, & ‘Civilizational Erasure’
January 14, 2026
Unless and until a critical mass of Europeans recognizes that woke secularism cannot provide a firm cultural foundation for either...
German Bishops, Over the Cliff
January 7, 2026
On Oct. 30, the German bishops’ conference announced the publication of a text by the bishops’ Commission on Schools and...
Rome and the Church in the U.S.
December 17, 2025
Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore, who confirmed my father, was a pugnacious Irishman with a taste for shocking people...
Books to Read This Christmas
December 10, 2025
Here are 11 suggestions of books to consider gifting that entertain, inform, and open new horizons of understanding.
Ukraine’s Religious Leaders & Munich 2.0
December 3, 2025
That new configuration of religious and moral witness in Ukraine has shown its strength during more than three years of...
‘Dignitatis Humanae’ Changing History
November 26, 2025
On Dec. 7, 1965, Pope Paul solemnly promulgated the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, known by its Latin incipit (opening...
Sportsmanship & Our Season of Discontents
November 19, 2025
The deterioration of our games is part and parcel of the deterioration of our culture. And as politics is downstream...