Petrocentrism: Is it a Problem?
June 11, 2025
Those of us in Rome in those electric days could not fail to have been impressed by the enthusiasm that...
George Weigel
A Catholic Fix for Higher Education?
June 6, 2025
Why are so many U.S. colleges and universities in crisis? Drew Gilpin Faust, an accomplished Civil War historian, gave the...
Getting Our Foreign Aid Right
June 2, 2025
Rhetorical restraint is not prominent in D.C. these days. Given the volatile personalities involved and the escalatory effects of social...
Hopes for a New Pontificate
May 21, 2025
Within a few hours of the election of Pope Leo XIV and his masterful presentation of himself to the Church...
Ringing Out Hope in Nagasaki
May 16, 2025
The riddle of Japanese Catholicism has long fascinated me. At the end of World War II, Catholics were less than...
How Europe’s Roots Shape U.S. Identity
May 9, 2025
Christian conviction continues to warp European high culture and erode European civil liberties. A vast immigration from North Africa and...
Retrospect On a Pontificate
May 2, 2025
During the March 2013 interregnum following the abdication of Pope Benedict XVI, and in the conclave itself, proponents of Cardinal...
On the Way of the Cross in Ukraine
April 18, 2025
Last Christmas, I borrowed a thought from the English spiritual writer Caryll Houselander and suggested in this space that the...
Pope St. John Paul II, Doctor of the Church?
April 4, 2025
The Catholic Church is prudently patient in awarding the title “Doctor of the Church” to her greatest teachers. However luminous...
The Henry J. Hyde Building, Please
March 20, 2025
DuPage County is one of the collar counties bordering Chicago. For years, it had the great good sense to send...