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.
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Cathedrals and Us
COMMENTARY: A true Catholic cathedral, functioning as God’s divine presence in the world, serves as a summons to evangelization.
Hard Times a’ Comin,’ Whoever Wins
COMMENTARY: We should not mask the fact that we are a deeply divided country and that the divisions are expressions of the human nature crisis.
Meditation on a Roman Pizza
COMMENTARY: If the goal is evangelizing a broken world with the healing, saving message of the Gospel, my bet is on the Pizza Group.
‘Crossing the Threshold of Hope’ After 30 Years
COMMENTARY: Pope John Paul II spoke to the world as one who, over a lifetime of reflection, had found the truth that makes other truths make sense in Jesus Christ, the fulfillment of God’s self-revelation to the world.
Choking on Rights Talk
COMMENTARY: How do we rebuild a public space where truth-telling prevails over euphemism?
When Was Baseball’s Golden Age?
COMMENTARY: Cases can be made for three eras by considering their paradigmatic greats.
Pontifical Academy for Life is Betraying its founder, JPII Biographer George Weigel Says
Weigel made the charge last week in his talk titled “St. John Paul II and Jérôme Lejeune: Two Lives at the Service of Life,” given as part of the second International Conference on Bioethics in Rome from May 17–18 in the Eternal City.
Lenten Literary Companions
COMMENTARY: These companions along the 40-day journey can help us live Catholic traditional practices more intensely.
