Sometimes the most perceptive observers of a society are outsiders. Perhaps the best analysis of America, for example, was penned by the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville following his travels throughout the United States between […]
From the Catholic Church’s very beginning, its relationship with Caesar has been, as they say,“complicated.” Christianity has always respected legitimate state authority. It has equally insisted, however, that there are parts of life where the […]
A new biography shows how twenty-first century Europe’s first martyr brought holiness to the ordinary. […]
The sheer ferocity of contemporary politics suggests that, for many people, it’s their real religion. […]
“Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones” outlines sound general principles, but also reflects the Church’s present struggle to comprehend modern finance. […]
On the bicentennial of Karl Marx’s birth, the world should be excoriating his ideas and the terrorism they spawned, not excusing or celebrating them. […]
Veteran journalist Phil Lawler asks hard questions in Lost Shepherd about where Pope Francis is—or isn’t—leading the Catholic Church. […]
The centenary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 should be an occasion for understanding Marxism’s amoral and pseudo-religious nature. […]
Anti-Americanism is as old (if not older) as the American Revolution itself. Like all nations, America has its flaws. But these defects attract disproportionate attention from the rest of the world. This is partly because […]
If you want to see where socialism takes a country, go to today’s Venezuela. After 18 years of a left-wing populist regime committed to “21st Century Socialism,” a once-wealthy and relatively stable nation is coming […]
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