The Church and The New Normal
July 1, 2015
IN THE WAKE of the Supreme Court’s marriage decision, these sober thoughts occur: (1) The Supreme Court of the United...
George Weigel
The Summer Reading List
June 24, 2015
FIFTY YEARS AGO, prior to my freshman year at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin H.S., the late Father W. Vincent Bechtel...
The Kasper Theory of Democracy?
June 17, 2015
A few weeks ago, after Ireland voted to approve so-called “same-sex marriage,” a correspondent sent me an e-mail quoting Cardinal...
Themes for Surviving “Ordinary Time”
June 10, 2015
I’M FORTUNATE TO hear good preaching on a regular basis. But even the best Catholic preaching leans far more toward...
The Myth of Washington Gridlock
June 3, 2015
Political gridlock is regularly deplored by pols, pundits and citizens alike. My contrarian view is that it can serve useful...
Men Such as These
May 27, 2015
LIKE MOST denizens of Washington, I pay too little attention to the sites other Americans make sacrifices to visit. Earlier...
The German Catholic Crisis of Faith
May 20, 2015
A report for the synod suggests that German Catholic thinking is virtually indistinguishable from that of non-believers on matters of...
Cardinal George Made the Difference
May 14, 2015
On Sept. 2, 1939, the House of Commons debated the British government’s response to the German invasion of Poland the...
John Paul II and ‘America’
May 6, 2015
IN THE YEARS PRECEDING the Great Jubilee of 2000, John Paul II held a series of continental synods to help...
Remembering No. 84, Jim Mutscheller
April 29, 2015
Jim Mutscheller, who died on April 10, wanted to be known as a man “who had led a good life,”...