I was saddened to learn of James Hitchcock’s death on July 14th at the age of 87. Like most people, my first encounter with the distinguished historian and author came through one of his books. […]
Of all nineteenth-century Catholic thinkers, John Henry Newman is the one who continues both to shape intellectual currents in modern Catholicism and offer an interesting dialogue partner to Protestants such as myself. While his patristic […]
Surprise and delight were the common responses to the announcement that this past week Pope Leo XIV approved the proposal of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints that St. John Henry Cardinal Newman be […]
In my essay “10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding” I focused on some little-known facts about the American Founding in general. The final three of those “10 things” mentioned Catholics and Catholicism, […]
As Catholic Americans prepare to mark Independence Day, we naturally look not only to the well-known “founding fathers” such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington but also to our Catholic forbears who were […]
When the Catholic Church commemorates the martyrdoms of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More every June 22nd, people tend to think that their deaths were just collateral damage in King Henry VIII’s spat with the […]
This Pentecost weekend, 19,000 pilgrims are making a three-day walk from Paris to reach Chartres Cathedral. Now organized by a French Catholic lay group called Notre Dame de Chrétienté (“Our Lady of Christendom”), the pilgrimage has expanded so much […]
There had to be men and women saints of all kinds. And today. . . we ought perhaps to have saints of yet another kind. — Charles Peguy, The Mystery of the Charity of Joan […]
June 1, 2025, marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Pierce v. Society of Sisters (268 US 510). What’s that, you ask? And why should I care? Pierce was a unanimous Supreme […]
May 8th marked the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the bloodiest conflict in human history, in which more than fifty million human lives were lost. Today, our world is once again […]
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