The Venerable Andrei Sheptytsky, who died eighty years ago on November 1, 1944, was one of 20th-century Catholicism’s outstanding figures, whose remarkable life and heroic ministry as leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church spanned 43 […]
Editor’s note: On the evening of November 13, the Washington-based Religious Freedom Institute gave its “Defender of Religious Freedom Award” to Dr. Thomas Farr: a devout Catholic who had a distinguished career in public service before working in […]
In the annals of historical boorishness, it would be hard to find something more egregious than the Holy See’s timing as it renewed its 2018 agreement with the People’s Republic of China, which allows the […]
In November 1944, my father, Ensign George S. Weigel, USNR, was serving as executive officer of USS APc 18: a coastal patrol and transport ship, armed with four 20 mm. anti-aircraft guns, that would eventually […]
Thirty-five years ago, the son of a great historian helped make history when he asked the question that triggered the demolition of the most grotesquely expressive artifact of the Cold War. My friend Daniel Johnson, […]
Shortly after taking office, British foreign secretary David Lammy described the “nature crisis” as a greater threat than terrorism because the nature crisis is “more fundamental,” “systemic,” “pervasive,” and “accelerating toward us at pace.” The Rt. Hon. […]
ROME–Pizza in the Eternal City tends to exemplify a proposition I have long defended: what crossed the Atlantic going west was usually improved in the process. I like Roman pizza, as I like Rome, but […]
On October 20, 1994, something unprecedented in the modern history of the papacy took place: the reigning pope published a book that was not an act of the papal magisterium but rather a personal reflection […]
I can understand why many Americans seem dispirited about world affairs. Things are indeed a mess. What I cannot understand, however, is the electorate’s seeming indifference to the global mess: an indifference that manifests itself […]
In a recent interview with The Pillar, Dr. Frank Ronge, a veteran German Catholic bureaucrat who coordinates the German Synodal Path, described the Synodaler Weg’s rationale and work. Many of those deeply engaged in the Synodal Path imagine it as […]
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