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The first session of the “Synod on Synodality,” currently meeting in Rome, is slated to be followed by a second such month-long affair in...

Those most enthusiastic about the Synod on Synodality that opens on October 4 want to say that it’s the most important Catholic event...

It’s a rare occasion when the word “unprecedented” can be used for a Church whose history extends over two millennia. Yet something...

Ever since the 1596 Union of Brest reestablished full communion between the Bishop of Rome and several ecclesiastical jurisdictions in...

I wish all those who find themselves concerned, depressed, befuddled, or angry at the present state of the Church could have spent July...

In early July, Vladimir Putin toured an Orthodox church in St. Petersburg, piously crossed himself, and lit a candle. Hours before,...

“Pope Francis has just given the Vatican his Ratzinger,” declared one July 2 headline; “Pope Francis Finds His Ratzinger,” announced...

The latest self-inflicted blow to the Vatican’s China policy came in mid-July, when the Holy See announced that Pope Francis had...

Carl von Clausewitz, the 19th-century Prussian military theorist whose masterpiece, On War , is still studied today, is not typically...

(Photo: Pixabay) Westerplatte, a narrow peninsula framing the Bay of Gdańsk, was the scene of one of the first battles of World War II in...

In mid-May, I spent two intense days in Lisbon, where a new Portuguese edition of my Letters to a Young Catholic was being prepared as a...

Pope Benedict XVI often said that, in today’s skeptical and cynical world, the saints make a more persuasive case for the truth of...

One of the worst of contemporary hymn-texts bids us to “Sing a new Church into being.” Not only does this injunction debase the noble...

(Photo provided) It would not be quite accurate to describe the Working Document for the October 2023 Synod (its Instrumentum Laboris ,...

(Courtesy photo) On first encountering Father Victor B. Galeone at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School in September 1965, my freshman...

Few of the following qualify as “beach reading;” they all qualify as good reading. In graduate school, I was informed that there was no...

When I dip into life’s memory bank for moments of unalloyed joy, the afternoon of October 9, 1966, quickly surfaces. On a brilliant...

A few days after Cardinal Matteo Zuppi’s appointment as head of a Vatican “peace mission” to “help ease tensions in the conflict in...

In a recent article on the social doctrine of John Paul II in the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica, Father Fernando de la Iglesia...

President Eisenhower in 1954. (Photo: Public Domain) Three days before Christmas 1952 and a month before his inauguration as the 34th...