Speyer is a charming city on the west bank of the Rhine River. Its splendid medieval core is dominated by a magnificent 11th-century cathedral, the resting place of German emperors for three hundred years and […]
In his June 2 Wall Street Journal column, Jason L. Riley noted a disturbing trend in our American moment: “According to the Department of Labor, 1 in 3 men were neither working nor looking for a job […]
A 2025 YouGov poll revealed some interesting factoids about Americans’ reading habits—or lack thereof. 40% of us didn’t read a book last year. About a quarter of the country read one to four books in […]
CRACOW. I usually find the quadrennial FIFA World Cup aggravating for the five reasons enumerated below, plus one other: my students here in the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society are sometimes so obsessed with the […]
Robert Louis Wilken—radical Christian disciple, devoted husband and father, distinguished patristics scholar, elegant writer, serious baseball guy—died on June 6, a few months short of age 90. Curiously enough, the first thing that comes to […]
As we mark the national semiquincentennial on July 4, we might well reflect on Benjamin Franklin’s answer to Elizabeth Willing Powel, when the elderly sage left the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and the Philadelphia matron […]
Article III of the Constitution, which establishes the Supreme Court, is the shortest of the three articles that define the institutions and powers of the three branches of the United States Government. That brevity underscores, […]
The Holy See has declared that, if the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) proceeds with the ordination of bishops in July without a papal mandate, those involved in these illicit ordinations are automatically (latae sententiae) excommunicated — […]
Several topics will be discussed at the consistory of cardinals called by Pope Leo XIV for June 26-29: the international situation and its effects on local Churches; key themes in the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas; the […]
At his May summit in Beijing, President Trump made an effort to convince Chinese leader Xi Jinping to release Jimmy Lai from his imprisonment in Hong Kong. Jimmy, whom I am honored to call a […]
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