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At a moment like this when there doesn’t seem to be a lot going right – ascendant authoritarianisms throughout the world; lethal violence...

Two days after that circular firing-squad known as the “Republican primaries” came to a de facto conclusion on the banks of the Wabash,...

The announcement that Archbishop Christoph Pierre will succeed Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò as Apostolic Nuncio to the United States is...

At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults, were baptized or entered into full communion with...

(Photo: Unsplash) On September 24, 1949, Georgii Karpov, chairman of the agency that provided “liaison” to the Russian Orthodox Church...

The death of Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13 – unexpected and, for many reasons, tragic – draws a curtain on the life and public...

(Photo by David Iliff / License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 / via Wikipedia) It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since my son, Stephen, and...

The Iowa caucuses are in the rear-view mirror, the New Hampshire primary looms on the horizon, and by most media accounts, the leitmotif...

When Ukraine celebrated Christmas two weeks ago, there were ample reasons for pessimism about that long-suffering country’s future. The...

(Photo: Unsplash) Shortly after jihadist murderers killed over 130 people in Paris, seven of the terrorists blowing themselves up in the...

ROME. During Synod-2015, I’ve been reading John Martin Robinson’s Cardinal Consalvi: 1757-1824 , a biography of Pope Pius VII’s secretary...

In 2003, Elizabeth Maguire, publisher of Basic Books, made a proposal: I should write Letters to a Young Catholic as part of a series...

“Wolf Hall,” the BBC adaptation of Hillary Mantel’s novel about early Tudor England, began airing on PBS ’s “Masterpiece Theater” Easter...

The World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia this September should be more than a vast Catholic “gathering of the clans” around Pope...

According to an old Vatican aphorism, “We think in centuries here.” Viewed through that long-distance lens, the most important Catholic...

According to Vatican-speak, a specially scheduled session of the Synod of Bishops is an “Extraordinary Synod,” meaning Not-an-Ordinary...

I’ve been writing op-ed columns for the Catholic press since 1979. In its present form, “The Catholic Difference,” I began this column in...

As the world marked the silver anniversary of the Polish elections of June 1989, which eventually brought to power the first...

His Holiness, Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Danilov Monastery 115191 Moscow RUSSIA Your Holiness: Grace and peace in our...

The first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and the jump sequence in the second episode of Band of Brothers are vivid reminders of the...