Everything revolved around him, and the population was being drawn into an ever-tighter embrace, the better for his superior character to rub off on us.
Read MoreA president’s choice of farewell is often more about symbolism than substance — a final effort to underscore priorities and help shape the narrative of a legacy.
Read MoreThe late president played a vital but often overlooked role, alongside Pope John Paul II, in keeping moral pressure on the Soviet Union and other repressive regimes.
Read MoreBy making character a key factor in presidential elections, Carter forced Americans to consider how much it mattered to them. As it turns out, not much
Read MoreThe quiet of Christmas Eve and the revelry of New Year’s marked a great moment of history with Pope St. John Paul the Great.
Read MoreJohn Paul was the Church’s teacher of jubilees, drawing upon his experience in Poland.
Read MoreJournalism has done a lot of dying in recent years. It was good to see it live again these past weeks
Read MoreShowrunner Kevin Wade has said that the show is about tribes—the Irish Catholic tribe, the police tribe, the military tribe, the New York tribe. I would argue that it is more about fathers and sons.
Read MoreLeftists often hate religion but love what religious people do. But what religious people do cannot be replaced
Read MoreMay 2024 Commencement addresses by Harrison Butker and Jonathan Roumie weren’t opposites but offer contrasting, not contradictory, Catholic approaches, which have roots in the Gospels.
Read MoreThe wrongly imprisoned, like Cardinal George Pell, the Carmelite martyrs and Jimmy Lai, use the arts to raise their hearts to God, offering a certain interior freedom, even contact with the transcendent.
Read MoreLove is more reasonable than loneliness, hope more reasonable than despair, because God is with us
Read MoreThe notion has always been offensive to non-Jews, but it shouldn't be
Read MoreGood players can play for different teams — especially when a coaching change is coming
Read MoreThat's been tried before, and Russia broke its promise
Read MorePope Francis chose to go to Mass under the gaze of Napoleon rather than Notre Dame under its reconstructed roof. Perhaps new wisdom will come in Corsica about how to deal with tyrants.
Read MoreFor the past 14 years on Friday nights, the Reagan family endured the pains of policing with the help of God’s grace.
Read MoreIts characters struggle to be virtuous in a profession that works daily amid society's moral transgressions
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