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...
George Weigel
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...
Kowtowing to Moscow Is Bad Ecumenism
December 11, 2014
In his work for Christian unity, St. John Paul II often expressed the hope that Christianity in its third millennium...
Six Great Reads for Under the Tree
December 5, 2014
That “there is no end to the making of books” is attested by both revelation (see Ecclesiastes 12:12) and a...
Lessons from Dietrich Von Hildebrand
November 26, 2014
Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977), a German Catholic philosopher, was part of a circle of thinkers that first formed around Edmund...