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...
George Weigel
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...
Vatican II and The Berlin Wall
November 21, 2014
History sometimes displays the happy capacity to arrange anniversaries so that one sheds light on another. On Nov. 21, 1964,...
Ecumenism and Russian State Power
November 14, 2014
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s department of external relations and a frequent visitor to the...
Exploded Into Being By Divine Love
November 7, 2014
Long fascinated by cosmology, George Weigel discusses the Big Bang theory, the work of Jesuit Father Georges Lemaître and a...
Frank Wolf: An Appreciation
October 31, 2014
For the first time since 1978, Frank Wolf’s name will not appear on the November ballot in Virginia’s 10th Congressional...
An Extraordinary Synod, Indeed
October 24, 2014
According to Vatican-speak, a specially scheduled session of the Synod of Bishops is an “Extraordinary Synod,” meaning not-an-Ordinary Synod, held...
Clash of Straw Men
October 17, 2014
Two recent speeches by senior Vatican officials whose responsibilities involve wrestling with world politics suggest that some default positions need...
Notre Dame Honors Russia’s New Martyrs
October 10, 2014
It’s sometimes hard to tell at this time of year, but there is more going on at Notre Dame than...