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From 1991 until 2005, Cardinal Camillo Ruini served Pope John Paul II as the papal Vicar for Rome – the man who handled the daily affairs of the diocese of which the Pope was, of course, bishop. Ruini was a creative cardinal-vicar who energized the Diocese of Rome for the New Evangelization – a concept he grasped perhaps better than any other Italian prelate. As president of the Italian bishops’ conference, he was committed to John Paul II’s program of “broadening the Tiber:”

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: There are many exemplars of the cardinal virtue of courage in the Catholic Church today: Catholics...

When the choirs of angels led Father Paul Mankowski, SJ, into the Father’s House on September 3, I hope the seraphic choirmaster chose...

In his Life of St. Augustine , the 5th-century bishop Possidius tells us that the greatest of the Latin Doctors of the Church, knowing...

The unanimous decision by Australia’s High Court to quash Cardinal George Pell’s convictions on charges of “historic sexual abuse” and...

Featured image: Wikicommons As Yale’s Carlos Eire masterfully demonstrated in Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 , there was...

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...

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

My late parents loved Cardinal George Pell, whom they knew for decades. So I found it a happy coincidence that, on November 12 (which...

(Photo: Daniel Ibañez/CNA) ROME. Even the greatest enthusiasts of the present pontificate might not assert that Pope Francis has an...

Today’s first reading is from an explication of the academic program of the reconfigured Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute...

Consider this sequence of events, familiar to some but evidently not to others: March 2013: Prior to any credible reports of misbehavior...

By the Gargantuan standards of the 21st-century National Football League, Gino Marchetti, who died this past April 29, was undersized at...

Thirty years ago last week, Poland began to self-liberate from communism through the first semi-free elections held behind the iron...

[On May 8, the Library of Congress and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars co-hosted a tribute to Dr. James H....

Your Eminence: I noted with interest your recent announcement of a “binding synodal process” during which the Church in Germany will...

When a pope is elected, the cardinals who have just chosen him make their way to the Hall of Benedictions atop the narthex of St. Peter’s...

Despite Pope Francis’s lecture on the subject at Synod-2015, and notwithstanding the passages on it in Synod-2018’s final report, there...

(Photo: Unsplash) 2018 was a bad year for Catholics. 2019 is almost certainly going to be worse. Good reason, then, to reflect on two...

(Photo by David Iliff / License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 / via Wikipedia) By peremptorily ordering the American bishops not to vote on local...