Like Shelby Foote’s three-volume masterpiece, The Civil War: A Narrative, Francis Parkman’s seven-volume colossus, France and England in...

On Aug. 25, I had the joy of announcing that Pope Francis had named Father Jorge Rodriguez as the next auxiliary bishop for the...

QUÉBEC CITY. The exit signs along Autoroute 40 between the quondam capital of New France and Montréal are a veritable Litany of the...

Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, caused a rumpus...

In August 1997, I was in the oncologist office with my mother and her doctor. The doctor shared with us that my mother had cancer in her...

U.S. Catholics generally know little about the Church’s history in our country. But whether you’re trying to fill gaps in your knowledge...

Ever since the United Kingdom decided in June to leave the European Union, contending (and sometimes overlapping) explanations have been...

My local paper, the Washington Post , is best read for its sports and op-ed pages and its often-sensible editorials on foreign policy....

The following, instructive nugget comes from Times of London columnist Tim Montgomerie, writing in late July after a visit to a South...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila, then Father Aquila, center, assists Saint Pope John Paul II with Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the...

I grew up in what you might call a genetically-Democratic family, but one in which partisan heterodoxy was not uncommon. My parents voted...

In the 1960s, Popes John XXIII and Paul VI initiated a new Vatican approach to the countries behind the iron curtain, the Ostpolitik....

Had I the resources, the one new book I’d give every delegate to the national political conventions meeting later this month is James...

CRACOW. With World Youth Day 2016 beginning here in less than three weeks, thoughts naturally turn to Pope St. John Paul II and his...

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

The term “elitist” has been bandied about so promiscuously in this election cycle that it’s become virtually content-free. Yet “elitist”...

So many innocent people have died. I think of Sept. 11, 2001, in New York City and Washington D.C., the years of conflict in the Middle...

Baseball is by far the most Catholic of the sports on which we lavish such attention and passion. Because it’s played without a clock,...

Life, even Catholic life, is full of ambiguities, but some things either are or aren’t. It’s a ball or a strike. It’s a Toyota or a Ford....

“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,...