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Some preliminaries: I quite agree that the United Nations is a sad, and sometimes malicious, joke. I understand that some people have...

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

The archbishop of Toronto is given to deprecating himself as “just a simple country cardinal.” In my experience, though, Cardinal Thomas...

If the civil new year is an occasion to resolve to Do Better in the future, the liturgical new year, the real new year that begins at...

My local paper, the Washington Post , is best read for its sports and op-ed pages and its often-sensible editorials on foreign policy....

At a moment like this when there doesn’t seem to be a lot going right – ascendant authoritarianisms throughout the world; lethal violence...

Two days after that circular firing-squad known as the “Republican primaries” came to a de facto conclusion on the banks of the Wabash,...

The announcement that Archbishop Christoph Pierre will succeed Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò as Apostolic Nuncio to the United States is...

At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults, were baptized or entered into full communion with...

(Photo: Unsplash) On September 24, 1949, Georgii Karpov, chairman of the agency that provided “liaison” to the Russian Orthodox Church...

The death of Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13 – unexpected and, for many reasons, tragic – draws a curtain on the life and public...

(Photo by David Iliff / License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 / via Wikipedia) It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since my son, Stephen, and...

The Iowa caucuses are in the rear-view mirror, the New Hampshire primary looms on the horizon, and by most media accounts, the leitmotif...

When Ukraine celebrated Christmas two weeks ago, there were ample reasons for pessimism about that long-suffering country’s future. The...

(Photo: Unsplash) Shortly after jihadist murderers killed over 130 people in Paris, seven of the terrorists blowing themselves up in the...

ROME. During Synod-2015, I’ve been reading John Martin Robinson’s Cardinal Consalvi: 1757-1824 , a biography of Pope Pius VII’s secretary...

In 2003, Elizabeth Maguire, publisher of Basic Books, made a proposal: I should write Letters to a Young Catholic as part of a series...

“Wolf Hall,” the BBC adaptation of Hillary Mantel’s novel about early Tudor England, began airing on PBS ’s “Masterpiece Theater” Easter...

The World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia this September should be more than a vast Catholic “gathering of the clans” around Pope...

According to an old Vatican aphorism, “We think in centuries here.” Viewed through that long-distance lens, the most important Catholic...