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Asked to name the most populous American dioceses, alert Catholics would likely name Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. I rather doubt...

On the evening of Dec. 15, 2004, I had dinner in the papal apartment with Pope John Paul II and several of his aides. Although his health...

On June 30, 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Harris v. McRae and upheld the constitutionality of the Hyde Amendment,...

Last November 11, on the centenary of its relocation to a 93-acre campus in suburban Washington, D.C., Georgetown Preparatory School...

It’s hard to imagine a more depressing spectacle in contemporary American public life than the immigration reform “debate.” What a friend...

Almsgiving, along with fasting and intensified prayer, is one of the three traditional Lenten practices enjoined on all Catholics by...

A few years ago, Alicja Tysiac, a Polish woman who suffers from severe myopia, tried to obtain an abortion, arguing that carrying the...

At an international symposium in honor of the late Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, held in Paris on Feb. 11, I offered closing remarks on...

The Thirty Years War looms large in the contemporary secularist imagination. There, it’s simply taken for granted that religious...

Dear Dr. Diaz: Congratulations on your nomination as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. Having worked on a bipartisan basis with seven of...

A few days alter the 2008 election, I was walking toward the Largo Argentina on a cool, clear Roman evening, when I noticed a magazine...

What’s the biggest threat to the world’s prosperity and stability over the medium haul—say, between 2020 and 2050? The proliferation of...

Father Christian Troll, a German Jesuit, is one of the Catholic Church’s leading students of Islam and a key figure in the...

Although I have lived in the Washington, D.C., area since 1984, I am an orthodox Baltimorean by birth, nurture, education, baseball...

Amidst some splendid Catholic theater, there were a lot of ideas to chew on in Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States. The pope’s...

In my Walter Mitty life, I’m not turning two with Cal Ripken at Camden Yards, or playing the Emperor Concerto with the National Symphony;...

John Paul II arrived in Warsaw on June 2, 1979; there and then, he ignited the revolution of conscience that would give birth to the...

I regret having to revisit this matter, but as a point of personal honor has been raised, I must. In early 2003, the Commonwealth of...

A Canadian friend recently alerted me to an international petition being organized by Avaaz.org, a “community of global citizens who take...

Those seeking insight into the ideas that shaped the Missal of Paul VI, the revised breviary, and other facets of the Church’s...