Excavating my desk recently, I found the program notes from a Tallis Scholars concert my wife and I had attended a few months ago. The...

On September 24, 1949, Georgii Karpov, chairman of the agency that provided “liaison” to the Russian Orthodox Church for the NKVD, the...

You’ve got to have a good memory for mid-Sixties pop music to remember the Seekers, an Aussie quartet that once vied for the top of the...

This Lenten Season is going by quickly, and with Easter being so early this year, I want to wish all of you a very blessed Holy Week and...

Ever since then Maidan revolution of dignity erupted in Kyiv in November 2013, Russian propaganda has been pumped into the world in a...

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

This past week Pope Francis visited Mexico. As I read his messages, it became clear to me that his insights also apply to the United...

The Monuments Men was a disappointing movie, but one of its most chilling scenes sticks in my mind as an analogue to the appalling...

It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since my son, Stephen, and I spent two months in Rome – all of Lent and Easter Week –...

It is the Year of Mercy, and people are starving for God’s mercy, even if they don’t recognize it. I was pleasantly surprised to see...

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

This past weekend close to 4,000 people rallied at the Colorado capitol building to encourage our state to protect life at every stage....

State-sponsored cruelty has been a staple of the human condition for millennia. But has there ever been a more wicked policy, with more...

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

In all the sixteen documents of the Second Vatican Council, is there any prescription more regularly violated than General Norm 22.3 of...

To redeploy a phrase from President Ford, our “long national nightmare” – in this case, the semi-permanent presidential campaign – will...

As the calendar year begins we celebrate two important feasts, the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God and the Epiphany. With the first...

Given the politically-correct hysteria that typically surrounds any discussion of racism these days, I hesitate to use the term. But it’s...

How could God, who exists outside of time, enter into time and take on a human body? The great theologian Fr. Romano Guardini said he...

Biblical scholars generally agree that Luke’s Gospel was written at least a generation later than Paul’s first letter to the Christians...