Europe and America
COMMENTARY: In ‘The Cube and the Cathedral,’ I suggested three reasons why Americans cannot write Europe off. Those reasons remain valid today.
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Retrospect on a Pontificate
COMMENTARY: Christian communities that maintain a clear understanding of their doctrinal and moral identity and boundaries have a chance to convert the post-modern world.
On the Way of the Cross, in Ukraine and Hong Kong
COMMENTARY: The brave witness of Archbishop Shevchuk and Jimmy Lai during this Holy Week leads to a ‘Via Lucis’
Synodality Against Episcopacy?
COMMENTARY: Some crucial teachings of the Church have been called into question, even contradicted, by various aspects of the synodality project.
Pope St. John Paul II, Doctor of the Church?
COMMENTARY: Twenty years after the death of John Paul II, it’s too early to declare him a doctor of the Church. It’s not too soon, however, to imagine why such an honor might be bestowed on him in the future.
Against the Politics of Grievance
COMMENTARY: Just when it seems to be running out of gas on the American left, it has emerged with a vengeance on the American right.
The Henry J. Hyde Federal Building, Please
COMMENTARY: Abraham Lincoln would have approved. So would St. Thomas More.
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.
Lent and the Purification of Memory
COMMENTARY: The coming of Lent suggests that the gift of one’s memory to God involves the constant purification of memory over a lifetime, as a saint like John Paul surely knew.
A People Defined by Sacrifice
COMMENTARY: Those who wish to be peacemakers on the world stage should read the brave words of the bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, who embody Catholic episcopal leadership at its noblest.
