Remembering America’s ‘Ambassador to Fatima’
COMMENTARY: Frank Shakespeare, who played an instrumental role in cementing the relationship between President Reagan and Pope John Paul II, died Dec. 14 at the age of 97.
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Pennsylvania: A Tale of 2 Caseys and the Death of a Pro-Life Catholic State
COMMENTARY: With the election of Josh Shapiro as governor and John Fetterman as Robert Casey’s partner in the U.S. Senate, the position of Pennsylvania as a pro-life state is a thing of the past.
Averting Nuclear Armageddon — in October 1962 and Today
COMMENTARY: Sixty years ago, it took the skill and resolve of key statesmen and religious leaders — in Washington, in Moscow, at the Vatican — to pull the world back from the precipice.
The Catholic Case for Labor
COMMENTARY: If we want to support workers, we should do what Jesus and his Church would do, not what Karl Marx and socialists would do.
When Mikhail Gorbachev Encountered John Paul II — and St. Francis
COMMENTARY: Did the former leader of the Soviet Union feel the tug of the Holy Spirit after the fall of communist empire?
1619, 1776 and the United States of America
COMMENTARY: There’s no arguing it: The United States of America, as our founders conceived it, started in 1776.
John Paul II’s Consecration of Russia
COMMENTARY: The Polish Pope made an act of entrustment to the Immaculate Heart of Mary 38 years ago.
Putin Goes Soviet: Shades of Hungary 1956
COMMENTARY: Right now, Ukraine is being martyred once again. And yet again, the persecutors march from Moscow.
‘Shedding Their Blood’ — The Popes, Ukraine and Russia
COMMENTARY: Once again, the people of Ukraine turn to the faith for their salvation against the enemy at the gate — and once again, a pope is not standing by in silence.
Remember 2021 — and Remember the Lessons of 9/11
COMMENTARY: The somber 20-year anniversary was met this year with another somber development — the American withdrawal from Afghanistan and its return to the Taliban. And it need not have been.
