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My hands were shaky a quarter-century ago as I carried the heavy box from the front door of our house into my study. Inside were my...

“Inculturation” has been a Catholic buzzword for over a half-century. It’s not the most elegant neologism, smacking as it does of...

Amidst a presidential campaign in which many of our countrymen deplore the choices we face in November, let’s take a break, follow the...

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), rhetorically oversold as the “U.S. Church’s anti-poverty program” – Do no other such...

The ecclesiastical propaganda machine created for last October’s Synod on Synodality for a Synodal Church is still grinding away, and...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says some interesting things about charity, the supreme theological virtue that, as St. Paul wrote...

Samuel Johnson, that great coiner of aphorisms, averred that “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” In...

Last month, I had the honor of addressing the Civitas Dei Fellowship, which is sponsored by the Dominicans’ Thomistic Institute in...

A long time ago (but not in a galaxy far away), Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School had us reading six or seven books every summer. I...

Rome is chaotic at its calmest, but three weeks working there in May suggested that the chaos has intensified to what may be...

According to a source well-positioned to know, one of the behind-the-scenes dramas of the present pontificate involved Pope Francis’s...

In the days before Pope Paul VI simplified the rituals surrounding the creation of new cardinals, men who had previously been informed...

Just when you thought American public life couldn’t get more deranged, the Great Pine Tree Flag Indictment was handed down. I refer, of...

Forty-five years ago, the New York Times cast its gimlet eye over the first three days of Pope John Paul II’s return to his Polish...

WARSAW. John Williams, 92-year-old laureate conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, has composed some of the most memorable...

ROME. Age certainly accelerates one’s sense of the passage of time. Well do I remember high school classes that felt as long as Würm...

Among the many urgent questions raised by the Synods on the Family in 2014 and 2015 and the current Synod on Synodality – questions that...

A book subtitled The Venereal Game is not normally one to be recommended in a family newspaper. Bear with me, however. The book’s title,...

On September 5, 1977, “Voyager 1,” built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was launched from Cape Canaveral atop a Titan IIIE rocket....

(Photo by David Iliff / License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 / via Wikipedia) When the always well-written and often wrongheaded New Yorker dislikes ...