The Ascension vs. Human Composting
July 9, 2025
The Ascension is thus crucial in the Church’s response to the crisis of our time, which is the crisis in...
George Weigel
‘Public’ ≠ State’ Or ‘Government’
June 25, 2025
In its recent nondecision in St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Catholic School v. Drummond, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand...
Yes, Ukraine-Russia Is Our War, Too
June 18, 2025
In late May, Trump administration officials at the highest level, frustrated by what they regard as Vladimir Putin’s incomprehensible obstreperousness...
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...
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...