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When did modern Catholicism begin? The conventional wisdom says, “At Vatican II.” A sophisticated version of the conventional wisdom...

Eighteenth-century British Jacobites wistfully toasted “the king over the water,” referring to exiled King James II, his successors, and...

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 1990 decision in Employment Division v. Smith, a broad, bipartisan coalition quickly formed to...

In the flood of commentary surrounding the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I found but one reference to a related anniversary of considerable...

Thomas Merton is usually thought of as a liberal or progressive Catholic, which in many respects he was: he certainly tilted left...

A son of Poland is now Blessed John Paul II. What is Poland to do now? If a friend might offer a suggestion: the Church in Poland should...

Lander, Wyo., is not an easy place to get to. I got there in February by flying from Washington to Denver and then sitting around the...

Where can you find a Catholic chaplaincy at an institution of higher learning that’s looking to expand its church to seat 1,400, because...

The otherwise inexplicable cure of a French nun suffering from Parkinson’s disease was accepted in early January by the Congregation for...

A number of fascinating books that haven’t received all that much attention, but richly deserve it, have crossed my desk in recent...

Asked to name the most populous American dioceses, alert Catholics would likely name Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. I rather doubt...

On the evening of Dec. 15, 2004, I had dinner in the papal apartment with Pope John Paul II and several of his aides. Although his health...

On June 30, 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Harris v. McRae and upheld the constitutionality of the Hyde Amendment,...

Last November 11, on the centenary of its relocation to a 93-acre campus in suburban Washington, D.C., Georgetown Preparatory School...

It’s hard to imagine a more depressing spectacle in contemporary American public life than the immigration reform “debate.” What a friend...

Almsgiving, along with fasting and intensified prayer, is one of the three traditional Lenten practices enjoined on all Catholics by...

A few years ago, Alicja Tysiac, a Polish woman who suffers from severe myopia, tried to obtain an abortion, arguing that carrying the...

At an international symposium in honor of the late Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, held in Paris on Feb. 11, I offered closing remarks on...

The Thirty Years War looms large in the contemporary secularist imagination. There, it’s simply taken for granted that religious...

Dear Dr. Diaz: Congratulations on your nomination as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. Having worked on a bipartisan basis with seven of...