Forty years ago in Poland St. John Paul II strengthened the courage of his people. He told them that they no longer had to go along with what the party demanded. They could be free, and did not need the permission of the state to live as a free people.
Read MoreLiturgical time is what frees us from the prison of mere chronological time, of being trapped in history which is just one damned thing after another. We need to live God’s time, which is one holy thing after another.
Read MoreTiananmen Square remains a bloodstain on the heroic year 1989, a year of hope and freedom
Read MoreThere could be no justice in Europe without a free Poland on the map, and there could be no just accounting of Poland’s identity and mission without including its faith in God.
Read MoreMsgr. Anthony Figueiredo’s release of information on Theodore McCarrick suggests what a new era of whistleblowing might look like in the Church.
Read MoreIf Fulton Sheen had known that being buried in Peoria rather than New York would be advantageous for his own beatification, what would he have decided?
Read MoreNo Catholic cleric in the 1970s could have more powerfully made the argument that the pro-life movement was the proper successor to the civil rights movement for progressives and liberals.
Read MoreMeasurements need to be based on constant standards. In a world of changing standards, how do we measure the good life?
Read MoreWe pay attention when the accused is a senator or head of the navy; what happens when it happens to the poor and vulnerable and unknown?
Read MoreUnder Father Hesburgh, and continued by his successors, Notre Dame was clearly pro-life but chose not to use its prestige to that end in the public square.
Read MoreStories out of the Masters 2019 were rife with anecdotes about the chastened, perhaps converted man. It was not just a comeback to winning, but a comeback to decent conduct.
Read MoreOn paper, Vos estis is a revolution greater than that of Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela in 2001.
Read MoreIt is marvellous to have such a delicious drink that is distinctively Canadian, another gift of Alberta to the federation
Read MoreWith the cathedra now in the central place, the entire architectural focus of the cathedral is on the bishop’s seat, including at the vast majority of Masses when he is not present.
Read MoreVanier founded a human movement, rooted in the Biblical conviction that the deepest meaning of being human is discovered in God’s revelation that we are made in His image and likeness.
Read MoreA week after Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI released his essay on the sexual abuse crisis, the wounded Church of Santiago must set its priorities straight.
Read MorePope Francis is not guilty of heresy, in part due to the fact his teaching style is not sufficiently clear as to sustain such a charge.
Read MoreJean Vanier is one of the great Catholic founders of our time, and those who saw in him something of Mother Teresa, now a canonized saint, were not wrong.
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