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I’m just old enough to remember when my elders still called November 11 “Armistice Day:” the armistice in question that which stopped the...

WARSAW. The temptation to ally the Church with a particular political party and its program is a perennial one, it seems. When that...

While Catholicism has been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the highest levels of the Church,...

July 25 is the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae , Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical on the integrity of love and the appropriate means of...

When the great Tom Wolfe died on May 14 — he of the white suits, the spats, and the prose style as exuberant as his wardrobe — I, like...

(Photo provided) Almost a quarter-century ago, Father Jay Scott Newman, back in Rome to finish a graduate degree after his priestly...

The Church’s custom of reading virtually all of the Acts of the Apostles at daily Mass during the Easter season struck me as...

I wasn’t surprised by the result of Ireland’s May 25 referendum, which opened a path to legal abortion in the Emerald Isle by striking...

The defense of the indefensible often leads to a kind of derangement in otherwise rational people. That was the case with the defenders...

The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1562. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) If there’s anything Catholics...

This past December 18, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the head of the department of external relations of the Russian Orthodox...

Happy (real) new year: the beginning of a new year of grace, which began December 3 with the First Sunday of Advent. “The holidays” so...

On September 29, 1952, the publication of the complete Revised Standard Version of the Bible was celebrated at the National Guard Armory...

Four centuries after his death, Shakespeare remains a peerless playwright because of his remarkable insight into the human condition....

In writing Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II , one of my secondary intentions was to bury two urban legends: that...

A triptych is a picture, or more commonly an altarpiece, that appears on three panels, though meant to be understood as a single...

When the second volume of my John Paul II biography, The End and the Beginning , was published in 2010, I thought I was finished with...

When I first visited Israel in 1988, my friend Professor Menahem Milson, a distinguished Arabist at Hebrew University who was Egyptian...

Sermon on the Mount by Cosimo Rosselli, c. 1481. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) Asked to name books that gave me the greatest...

Given the intellectual flimsiness of their work, it’s best to look for cultural causes to explain the “New Atheists”’ popularity. And...