Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Heroes
March 3, 2016
Ever since the Maidan revolution of dignity, Russian propaganda has been pumped into the world in a steady stream. Most...
George Weigel
ISIS, Genocide and The US Response
February 17, 2016
Martyrdom is a daily fact of life wherever the black flag of ISIS stains the Mesopotamian sky.
An Invitation to a Roman Lent
February 11, 2016
This week, George Weigel writes about the best Lent of his life in Rome, where he participated in the city’s...
Anger and Citizenship
February 4, 2016
I hope that, as the 2016 campaign unfolds, the electorate will begin to understand that anger is not a particularly...
Opportunity Amid Demographic Crisis
January 28, 2016
State-sponsored cruelty has been a staple of the human condition for millennia. But has there ever been a more wicked...
Ukraine: A Country at The Crossroads
January 21, 2016
When Ukraine celebrated Christmas two weeks ago, there were ample reasons for pessimism about that long-suffering country’s future.
Dear Father: Pray the Black, Do the Red
January 13, 2016
In all the 16 documents of the Second Vatican Council, is there any prescription more regularly violated than General Norm...
Looking Toward Nov. 8
January 8, 2016
TO REDEPLOY A phrase from President Gerald Ford, our “long national nightmare” – in this case, the semi-permanent presidential campaign...
Christmas and a World Upside Down
December 23, 2015
Preachers at Christmas often emphasize the lowliness of the Christ Child’s birth. This pattern of inversion – turning everything upside-down...
Recalling Two Great American Bishops
December 20, 2015
WE AMERICAN CATHOLICS are, in the main, notoriously uninterested in our own history. So it likely escaped the notice of...