In a Sistine Chapel homily, given to the cardinals who had elected him pope the evening before, the new bishop of Rome, reflecting on the dialogue between Jesus and Peter […]

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, entered the world “full of grace and truth,” born to reveal the Father’s love for the world, yet born to suffer, to be crucified, […]

ROME—When Pope Francis stepped out onto the central loggia of St. Peter’s on the night of March 13, I thought of the man I had met in his Buenos Aires […]

Last Wednesday, St. John Vianney Theological Seminary’s refectory was electric with the energy of an announcement from Rome. I stood in the room with our seminarians, their professors and our […]

Jacques Fesch was a murderer. Fesch grew up in Belgium, living a life of luxury with his father’s wealth. He traveled extensively, he raced horses and sailboats and sports cars. […]

ROME—At the point at which John Paul II began his papacy in the first volume of my biography of him, “Witness to Hope,” I borrowed some thoughts from Hans Urs […]

In the past few weeks, I’ve heard a lot of conjecture about what Pope Benedict XVI’s legacy will be. The secular media is nearly obsessed with offering analysis of a […]