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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...

Perhaps it was being “overcome with Paschal joy” (as the Prefaces for Easter put it). Maybe it was my guardian angel whispering in my...

Did you find the Gorsuch hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee a depressing exercise in political theater? Are you tired of the...

When I first met Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., more than twenty years ago, I was struck by his boyish demeanor, his exquisite courtesy,...

(Photo: Unsplash For Lent 2016, I adopted a new Forty Days discipline in addition to intensified prayer, daily almsgiving, and letting my...

The best Lent of my life involved getting up every day at 5:30 a.m., hiking for miles through ankle-twisting, cobblestoned city streets,...

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...