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...
George Weigel
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...
Observing Lent, Day by Day
February 11, 2015
Lent is a journey – a journey to Calvary with the Lord and an opportunity to reflect on how well we’ve...
Unique Challenges for Vatican Diplomacy
February 4, 2015
The Vatican engages in bilateral diplomacy to secure the freedom of the Catholic Church to be itself in the countries...
Nonsense on “60 Minutes”
January 28, 2015
"60 Minutes," The CBS News "magazine" that helped redefine television journalism, prides itself on challenging conventional wisdom. No such challenge,...
Europe and Nothingness
January 21, 2015
In the wake of the horrific jihadist attack on the Paris-based journal Charlie Hebdo, the trope “satirical magazine” was regularly deployed...
Owning Our Baptism
January 14, 2015
THE TRANSFER OF the celebration of the Epiphany to a Sunday from Jan. 6 (the solemnity’s traditional date), and the...
Africa’s Catholic Moment
January 7, 2015
According to an old Vatican aphorism, “We think in centuries here,” and viewed through that long-distance lens, the most important...
The Humbling of The Wise Men
December 27, 2014
IT MIGHT SEEM that everything that could be said, has been said, about the shepherds, the wise men and the...