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Lenten lessons from the silent saint
He was a man of silence and action. As we continue to walk through Lent, St. Joseph, the man who is revered as patron of the universal...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Mar 22, 20173 min read


On “owning” the Church
The question of “who owns the Church” has had a stormy history in Catholic America, although the terms of reference have changed...

George Weigel
Mar 21, 20173 min read


Persuasive disciples, not anarchic disrupters
We are living through a dangerous moment in our national life, of an intensity and potential for destruction unseen since 1968. Then, a...

George Weigel
Mar 14, 20173 min read


Oh, the gift of life-giving love
(Photo: Adobe Stock) Following God’s design for how he created us as male and female brings great peace, harmony and unity to marriage,...

Matt and Mindy Dalton
Mar 9, 20173 min read


Taking back the true dignity of women
A woman wearing a long skirt, with long blonde hair, is dancing and praising God, while silhouetted against the evening sky (Photo: Adobe...

Mary Beth Bonacci
Mar 9, 20174 min read


A new Lenten discipline
(Photo: Unsplash For Lent 2016, I adopted a new Forty Days discipline in addition to intensified prayer, daily almsgiving, and letting my...

George Weigel
Mar 8, 20173 min read


Healing the Reformation’s wounds
Luther at the Diet of Worms by Anton von Werner, c. 1877. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) Five hundred years have passed since...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Mar 6, 20173 min read


A Lent to remember
The best Lent of my life involved getting up every day at 5:30 a.m., hiking for miles through ankle-twisting, cobblestoned city streets,...

George Weigel
Mar 1, 20173 min read


Encounter God’s Word in the desert
We are about to begin Lent, the solemn season in which the Church unites herself to what the Catechism calls “the mystery of Jesus in the...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Feb 22, 20174 min read


A modest defense of the “liberal world order”
Some preliminaries: I quite agree that the United Nations is a sad, and sometimes malicious, joke. I understand that some people have...

George Weigel
Feb 22, 20173 min read


The last testament of Benedict XVI
SS BENEDETTO XVI - Aula Paolo VI- Udienza Generale - 08-02-2006 How does he spend his days in the Mater Ecclesiae monastery? What led him...
Carmen Elena Villa
Feb 16, 20173 min read


Paul, Apollos, and Cephas, all over again
In April 2016, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth, England, issued a pastoral letter on the interpretation of Amoris Laetitia (the Pope’s...

George Weigel
Feb 14, 20173 min read


The "Hidden Figures" of the Space Race
(Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox) The great deeds and discoveries of humanity always have one or several protagonists, but also...
Carmen Elena Villa
Feb 14, 20172 min read


Thinking through the temptation of cohabitation
Men and women are offended on brick wall background (Photo: Adobe Stock) Men and women clearly need each other and naturally gravitate...
Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk
Feb 10, 20173 min read


Christian persecution challenges and strengthens
(Photo: Unsplash) We live in a time of heroic witnesses who are giving their lives or suffering for the faith, but few people know it. As...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Feb 8, 20174 min read


Synod-talk, again
On January 13 the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops published a “preparatory document” for the 2018 Synod on Young People,...

George Weigel
Feb 8, 20173 min read


A papal tutor of heroic virtue
On January 20, Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to publish decrees acknowledging the “heroic virtues” of...

George Weigel
Feb 1, 20173 min read


Theology isn’t math; but it <em>is</em> theology
During the heyday of the Solidarity movement, a famous Polish slogan had it that, “For Poland to be Poland, 2 + 2 Must Always = 4”. It...

George Weigel
Jan 25, 20173 min read


Five ways to make America great again
March for Life in Denver, Jan. 17, 2015. (Photo by Jeffrey Bruno/CC BY 2.0) With the recent inauguration of President Trump, his promises...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Jan 24, 20174 min read


Fake history
Speaking of public policy debates, Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said that, while everyone had a right to his opinion, no one had a...

George Weigel
Jan 18, 20173 min read
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