John Carroll (1735-1815) was the first Catholic bishop, not just in, but of the United States, for during the first 18 years of his episcopate, his Diocese of Baltimore encompassed the entire country. Carroll was […]
Composed in the wake of 9/11, “The Dream Isaiah Saw” quickly became a contemporary Christmas classic. The hymn’s powerful evocation of the peaceable kingdom on God’s holy mountain, described by the greatest of Hebrew prophets […]
On November 10, a “Synodal Committee” created by the recently completed German “Synodal Way” met for the first time. The committee’s mandate is to prepare the foundations for a “Synodal Council” of laity, clergy, and […]
Advent-2023 is as short as Advent can be, so this annual column on Christmas gift books that will inspire, entertain, inform, or all of the above comes a bit earlier than usual; it also includes […]
With the God of the Bible having largely disappeared from public consciousness in Great Britain, the closest thing to a replacement deity is the British National Health Service. Created after World War II, the NHS […]
As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day on November 23, my Catholic fellow-citizens might take a moment to give thanks for a 120-year old apostolic constitution that virtually no one remembers — but that is re-asserting its […]
As chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, John Lee is the principal enforcer of the Chinese communist regime’s ever-tightening chokehold on his city’s liberties. Earlier this month, he hosted a “Global Financial […]
Shortly after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, I noted in this column and elsewhere that the entire episode – including the fouling of the public space by the aggressor’s genocidal threats and endless disinformation […]
By their vocabulary, you shall know them? Well, to a considerable degree. And in these early November days, when the Church celebrates all the saints in glory and prays for those who yearn to join […]
The Synod on Synodality meeting this month is the first of a two-part synodal assembly; the second session is scheduled to meet a year from now, in October 2024. No one is sure what will […]
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