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.”
Guest Columnists
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.
Foreign-Policy-by-Hashtag: #BeatAdolf?
The first 15 minutes of “Saving Private Ryan” and the jump sequence in the second episode of “Band of Brothers” are vivid reminders of the extraordinary courage displayed on D-Day, 70 years ago.