‘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...
George Weigel
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,...
No Fighting God
March 4, 2015
Some months after my son-in-law, Rob Susil, died, a longtime friend asked me in a gentle but point-blank way, “Are...
World Christianity by the Numbers
February 26, 2015
THE ANNUAL “STATUS of Global Christianity” survey published by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research is a cornucopia of numbers:...
Ukraine: Confusion, Disinformation
February 19, 2015
TWO RECENT interviews in the National Catholic Register suggest that there is considerable confusion about what’s what in Ukraine. Those...