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...
George Weigel
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,”...
‘Wolf Hall’ and Anti-Catholicism
April 22, 2015
“WOLF HALL,” THE BBC adaptation of Hillary Mantel’s novel about early Tudor England, began airing on PBS’ “Masterpiece Theater” Easter...
Newman and Vatican II
April 15, 2015
What might we learn from John Henry Newman about the proper way to “read” Vatican II, as we anticipate the...
Easter and Evangelism
April 8, 2015
GALATIANS 1:15-18 is not your basic witness-to-the-Resurrection text. Yet St. Paul’s mini-spiritual autobiography helps us understand just how radically the...
The ‘Tyranny of the Possible’
April 1, 2015
Ten years after his death, Pope St. John Paul II looms even larger than he did a decade ago. What...
The Indomitable and Effective Cardinal Pell
March 25, 2015
Shortly after Cardinal George Pell was named Archbishop of Melbourne, he instituted several reforms at the archdiocesan seminary, including daily...
A Mission of Loving With Integrity
March 18, 2015
The World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia this September should be more than a vast Catholic “gathering of the clans”...
Keeping Catholic Schools Catholic
March 11, 2015
Will the Church be allowed to staff its schools with teachers who teach and live what the Catholic Church believes,...