The Henry J. Hyde Federal Building, Please
COMMENTARY: Abraham Lincoln would have approved. So would St. Thomas More.
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Demythologizing Some Recent Catholic History
COMMENTARY: Correcting two distortions of the historical record in aid of partisan ecclesiastical purposes in hope they cease, especially in the Jubilee of Hope.
Lent and the Purification of Memory
COMMENTARY: The coming of Lent suggests that the gift of one’s memory to God involves the constant purification of memory over a lifetime, as a saint like John Paul surely knew.
A People Defined by Sacrifice
COMMENTARY: Those who wish to be peacemakers on the world stage should read the brave words of the bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, who embody Catholic episcopal leadership at its noblest.
Cathedrals and Us
COMMENTARY: A true Catholic cathedral, functioning as God’s divine presence in the world, serves as a summons to evangelization.
Russia’s Sacrilegious War on Ukraine
COMMENTARY: American policy-makers should take this pathology into account when pondering whatever negotiations, or other Western actions, might bring the war in Ukraine to a just conclusion.
Manners, Methods and Greatness
COMMENTARY: US leadership is sorely in need of the kind of statesmanship exhibited by Winston Churchill, Clement Atlee and Ronald Reagan.
Hippocrates Weeps: Catholics and Reforming American Medicine
Getting the federal government’s healthcare agencies out of the DEI swamps and the gender-fluidity wilderness is only a start.
Joe Biden: When ‘The Last Hurrah’ Met Catholic Lite
COMMENTARY: I would like to feel pity for the now-former president, but that’s a steep climb.
From Doubting Thomas to Doubting Peter?
COMMENTARY: We should, above all, pray for a pope who kneels before the divine mystery as revealed in Scripture and Tradition.
