‘Luce:’ Mascot of The Dumbed-Down
December 11, 2024
During his years as professor of fundamental theology at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, Salvatore “Rino” Fisichella was often cited by...
George Weigel
An Open Letter To J.D. Vance
December 4, 2024
Dear Senator Vance: As Americans celebrate a unique national holiday, the origins of which remind us that our democracy is...
A Too-Little-Known Christian Witness
November 27, 2024
The Venerable Andrei Sheptytsky, who died eighty years ago on November 1, 1944, was one of 20th century Catholicism’s outstanding...
Vatican’s Ongoing China Policy Scandal
November 21, 2024
In the annals of historical boorishness, it would be hard to find something more egregious than the Holy See’s timing...
Meditation on a Roman Pizza
October 30, 2024
Pizza in the Eternal City tends to exemplify a proposition I have long defended: what crossed the Atlantic going west...
An Open Letter to The Synod Secretary
October 7, 2022
The “National Synthesis of the People of God in the United States of America for the Diocesan Phase of the...
Thank You, Your Majesty the Queen
October 1, 2022
Americans have many reasons to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II, one of the few truly noble figures on...
On the Accelerating Passage of Time
August 11, 2022
In one of his Blackford Oakes novels, William F. Buckley, Jr. had a character crack a Wagnerian joke along these...
Elizabeth Warren, Woke Totalitarian
August 5, 2022
What would the bill touted by Senator Warren do? A justifiably irate editorial in National Review gave the nasty details.
Another Assault On John Paul II
July 29, 2022
On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II had lunch in the papal apartment with Dr. Jerome Lejeune, the renowned...