Several years back, the estimable Father Paul Scalia observed, of some cultural idiocy or other, “Who knew the end of civilization would...

Rome’s Aventine Hill has seen a lot. Legend has it that a dispute over the hill led to the fratricidal conflict between the city’s...

Tucked away in the province of Burgundy, wine, Romanesque architecture, and the monastic life all reached their highpoint in the Middle...

We are about to begin the first Lent of a new decade. And there is nothing like being in Rome for to prepare one for this period of...

The post-synodal apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia [Dear Amazonia] did not accept or endorse the 2019 Amazonian synod’s proposal...

Her fiction may occasionally get the chop in politically correct 21st-century American high schools. But as Benjamin Alexander writes in...

“Now is the time of St. Joseph!” Although it possible to overlook St. Joseph in the story of salvation history due to his silence in the...

Our culture talks a lot about marriage tragedies but not enough about successes. In the checkout line at the grocery store, on TV shows...

(Photo: xiquinhosilva / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0) Seventy-five years ago, on January 27, 1945, the infantrymen of the Red Army’s...

Immediately after news broke on January 12 that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah had written a book on the crisis of...

Ave Maria, Gloria in excelsis, Agnus Dei, Dominus Vobiscum, Sanctus, Tantum Ergo . These are just some of the Latin phrases that...

It is truly a wonder that we have the gift of the Bible, through which God speaks to us, convicts us, heals us and nourishes us on our...

Americans not obsessed with politics — that is, most Americans — will start  paying serious attention to the 2020 presidential race after...

(Photo: Paul Keiffer / Unsplash) Sometimes I decide what I’m going to write about. And sometimes God does. I just came back from the...

Photo Courtesy of Netflix I first met Pope Emeritus Benedict in June 1988; over the next three decades, I’ve enjoyed many lengthy...

It is hard to think of an event that shaped the modern world more than the Reformation. Not only did it split the Church in Western...

Pope Francis concluded his pre-Christmas address to the Roman Curia by invoking the memory of Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, SJ, who died...

The new and much-ballyhooed Netflix film  The Two Popes  should, by rights, be called  The One Pope , for it presents a fairly nuanced,...

During and after the grim martial law period in the early 1980s, many freedom-minded Poles would greet each other on January 1 with a...

On December 17, the day the first “O Antiphon” signaled the intensification of preparations for Christmas, the Church read the genealogy...