Demythologizing Catholic History
March 12, 2025
The National Catholic Reporter recently saw fit to mark Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s 75th birthday by perpetuating two myths falsehoods, really...
George Weigel
The Purification Of Memory & Lent
March 7, 2025
On Dec. 20, 2002, I was at lunch in the papal department when the wide-ranging conversation John Paul II always...
What Cathedrals Can Teach Us
February 21, 2025
The Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the nation’s capital is a magnificent Neo-Gothic structure, based on...
The Sacrilegious War on Ukraine
February 12, 2025
Today’s Russian Orthodox leadership is a theological, moral, and pastoral train wreck. U.S. foreign policy can’t fix that. Nonetheless, those...
Manners, Methods, And Greatness
February 6, 2025
“Browsing Footprints in Time,” the memoirs of Winston Churchill’s longtime private secretary, John Colville, I found a tale from 80...
Catholics, Hippocrates, & Reforming Medicine
January 29, 2025
I am the odd man out in a family of medical folk. My maternal grandfather was a physician; my mother...
Biden’s Last Hurrah Meets Catholic Lite
January 23, 2025
Four years ago, this column praised the courage of Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, then-president of the U.S. Conference...
2025 Resolutions And Resources
January 8, 2025
Jubilee 2025 began on Christmas Eve 2024, with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s in Rome, and...
Embassy Vatican Demystifications
January 3, 2025
A change of presidential administrations typically leads to changes in U.S. diplomatic personnel abroad, especially at the ambassadorial level. This,...
Books for Christmas Giving — 2024
December 18, 2024
A friend told me recently that bookstores were making something of a comeback. I hope that’s true because browsing bookstores...