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...
George Weigel
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...
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...
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...