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

Samuel Johnson, that great coiner of aphorisms, averred that “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” In...

Last month, I had the honor of addressing the Civitas Dei Fellowship, which is sponsored by the Dominicans’ Thomistic Institute in...

A long time ago (but not in a galaxy far away), Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School had us reading six or seven books every summer. I...

Rome is chaotic at its calmest, but three weeks working there in May suggested that the chaos has intensified to what may be...

According to a source well-positioned to know, one of the behind-the-scenes dramas of the present pontificate involved Pope Francis’s...

In the days before Pope Paul VI simplified the rituals surrounding the creation of new cardinals, men who had previously been informed...

Just when you thought American public life couldn’t get more deranged, the Great Pine Tree Flag Indictment was handed down. I refer, of...

Forty-five years ago, the New York Times cast its gimlet eye over the first three days of Pope John Paul II’s return to his Polish...

WARSAW. John Williams, 92-year-old laureate conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, has composed some of the most memorable...

ROME. Age certainly accelerates one’s sense of the passage of time. Well do I remember high school classes that felt as long as Würm...

Among the many urgent questions raised by the Synods on the Family in 2014 and 2015 and the current Synod on Synodality – questions that...

A book subtitled The Venereal Game is not normally one to be recommended in a family newspaper. Bear with me, however. The book’s title,...

On September 5, 1977, “Voyager 1,” built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was launched from Cape Canaveral atop a Titan IIIE rocket....

(Photo by David Iliff / License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 / via Wikipedia) When the always well-written and often wrongheaded New Yorker dislikes ...

In Jesus of Nazareth – Holy Week , Pope Benedict XVI remarked on the striking parallel between the presence of the holy women at the...

In May 1993, the “World Russian People’s Council,” a “meeting place” for those “concerned about the present and future of Russia,” was...

One of my life’s great blessings has been to have known and worked with men and women whose books I first studied in college and graduate...

(Photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI)) What came first: Creation, or God’s covenants with the People of...

Twenty-four years ago this week, I was in Jerusalem to cover Pope John Paul II’s epic pilgrimage to the Holy Land for NBC. After going to...