It was highly amusing for me to read the comments to my “Winnowing Weasel Words” piece, recently published by CWR. First, I was described as an American, and then, when the editor pointed out that […]
Popes have long been political players on the world stage. In recent times, John Paul II worked with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan to bring down the Berlin Wall. Benedict XVI addressed a joint sitting […]
Last week, my inbox was inundated with people writing about the recent concert in St. Peter’s Square. For those who missed it, the “Grace for the World” concert was held on September 13th, and it […]
Greg Sheridan is a household name in Australia. For over thirty years now, he has been the country’s leading foreign affairs journalist. He is also a Catholic and has produced a book on how we […]
Editor’s note: Bishop Emeritus Peter John Elliott of Melbourne died this past Wednesday, August 6th, at Box Hill Hospital at the age of 81. Bishop Elliott was a convert to the Catholic Church, and was […]
Sometime last century, at the Fisher House chaplaincy in Cambridge, the Dominican chaplain told a joke in his homily—it was the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola—about the difference between Jesuits and Dominicans. He explained […]
The ExCel Conference Centre near Canary Wharf in the East End of London was recently the location for two major conferences: the 2025 ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) event, and a Word on Fire conference […]
It’s rare for me to hold a fashionable position but I am delighted to be in the company of high-profile people, from the historian Tom Holland to Bishop Robert Barron and the authors Michael Frost […]
The Cambridge historian Richard Rex has noted that the first great crisis in Christianity was over the nature of the Trinity, especially over the nature of Christ, hence the early Christological heresies. The second great […]
It is an honour to deliver this address today. I stand before you as an Australian national and a subject of the British crown. It is not however entirely surprising that you should have a […]
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