Essay

Letter from Leyte, eighty years ago

November 10, 2024 George Weigel 7

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 […]

Essay

Newman and the key to conversion

November 3, 2024 Russell Shaw 23

Lately, I’ve had occasion to read two books by Saint John Henry Newman. One is Newman’s first novel, Loss and Gain, while the other is that classic “history of my religious opinions” (Newman’s words), the Apologia Pro Vita […]

Essay

Why pray for the dead?

November 1, 2024 John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. 5

Catholics observe November as the month of prayer for the faithful departed. But November begins with All Saints Day. What, if anything, connects these two? Well, they are connected. We perhaps need to widen our […]

Books

Ecclesiology Today

October 18, 2024 Tracey Rowland 22

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 […]