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The Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Unsplash) The Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the nation’s...

(Photo: Unsplash) Today’s Russian Orthodox leadership is a theological, moral, and pastoral train wreck. U.S. foreign policy can’t fix...

Winston Churchill (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) Browsing Footprints in Time, the memoirs of Winston Churchill’s longtime...

(Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) Four years ago, this column praised the courage of Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles,...

In the annals of historical boorishness, it would be hard to find something more egregious than the Holy See’s timing as it renewed its...

Thirty-five years ago, the son of a great historian helped make history when he asked the question that triggered the demolition of the...

Shortly after taking office, British foreign secretary David Lammy described the “nature crisis” as a greater threat than terrorism...

ROME–Pizza in the Eternal City tends to exemplify a proposition I have long defended: what crossed the Atlantic going west was usually...

On October 20, 1994, something unprecedented in the modern history of the papacy took place: the reigning pope published a book that was...

I can understand why many Americans seem dispirited about world affairs. Things are indeed a mess. What I cannot understand, however, is...

In a recent interview with The Pillar, Dr. Frank Ronge, a veteran German Catholic bureaucrat who coordinates the German Synodal Path,...

According to the Vatican yearbook, the Annuario Pontificio , there are north of 5,000 Catholic bishops in the world today. They share...

In her prescient book, Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, Mary Ann Glendon of the Harvard Law School warned her...

“Hallow,” the prayer app that debuted in 2018, is one of the most popular spiritual tools on the planet, having been downloaded some 14...

My hands were shaky a quarter-century ago as I carried the heavy box from the front door of our house into my study. Inside were my...

“Inculturation” has been a Catholic buzzword for over a half-century. It’s not the most elegant neologism, smacking as it does of...

Amidst a presidential campaign in which many of our countrymen deplore the choices we face in November, let’s take a break, follow the...

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), rhetorically oversold as the “U.S. Church’s anti-poverty program” – Do no other such...

The ecclesiastical propaganda machine created for last October’s Synod on Synodality for a Synodal Church is still grinding away, and...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says some interesting things about charity, the supreme theological virtue that, as St. Paul wrote...