In recent years, as scholars have explored Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy with greater access to primary-source documents, something utterly baffling to the conventional wisdom of his time – and ours – has come into focus: Reagan, while determined to win the Cold War, was also eager to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
Guest Columnists
Reviewing an Eminent Distortion of History
As the world marked the silver anniversary of the Polish elections of June, 1989, a conference met at the Vatican to consider “The Church in the Moment of Change in 1980-1989 in East Central Europe.”
The Uses of Monarchy
Hereditary monarchy is not exactly a growth industry in the 21st century.
Lessons from the Present
I recently unearthed a letter that my 16-year-old self wrote to my future 30-year-old self.
Now That School’s Out, What’s In?
Now that school is out, it’s fair to ask: “What’s in?” That’s a question parents should be considering. They have to be concerned with how their youngsters are occupying themselves during the summer vacation.
Charity: Our Christian Calling
A friend of mine is a church secretary. Her duties include greeting those who come to the parish seeking financial assistance. The poor rightly think of a church as a place to find help, and her parish has seen its share of supplicants.
A Sense of Mission
If we really believed that the most important part of our being is united to Christ and thus incorporated into the life of the Holy Trinity – how would we comport ourselves here on earth? George Weigel says we’d be on fire with a sense of mission.
An Open Letter to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
Your Holiness:
Grace and peace in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Finding Common Ground in A World of Differences
by Karen Osborne Things would have been really different if I had been born in 1880, not 1980. In the grand scheme of history, 100 years isn’t even close to being a drop in the bucket. When you’re talking about a human life, however, 100 years is a long time. If I had been born […]
John Paul and Francis At Yad Vashem
As that familiar parody of bad fiction has it, “it was a dark and stormy night” – March 21, 2000 to be precise – when I made my way from the Jerusalem Hilton to the Notre Dame Center to meet a senior Vatican official who had promised me a diskette with the addresses John Paul II would deliver during his epic visit to the Holy Land.