There is a famous story about St. Francis of Assisi meeting the Sultan of Egypt during the Fifth Crusade. The poor Christian monk sought an audience with the great Muslim leader al-Malik al-Kamil in 1219 […]
Introduction This coming year will mark the five-hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther’s posting of his 95 Theses onto the door of the collegiate church of Wittenberg, traditionally regarded as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. […]
“Europe will return to the faith or she will perish.” — Hilaire Belloc, Europe and the Faith. Soon after the March, 2004 bombing of Madrid’s Atocha train station by Al Qaeda partisans, there were calls to […]
The vital point running through all these questions is the totalitarian claim of the state over the citizen to the exclusion of his religious and moral obligation towards God. — First Lieutenant Graf Yorck von […]
In these days of confusion, when good is lambasted and evil celebrated, the past is being rewritten. Nowhere is this more marked than in the recent inversion of English Reformation history with Thomas More now […]
CRACOW. With World Youth Day 2016 beginning here in less than three weeks, thoughts naturally turn to Pope St. John Paul II and his pilgrimages to his Polish homeland. The first, the Nine Days of […]
At a moment like this when there doesn’t seem to be a lot going right – ascendant authoritarianisms throughout the world; lethal violence by ideological fanatics; feckless responses to both from the democracies – it’s […]
It wasn’t so much the look of poverty as she saw it a century ago in the teeming tenements of New York that outraged Dorothy Day as it was the smell. Many years later in […]
Christ, before his Passion, said to his apostles, “My soul is sorrowful even to death.”1 He was about to enter the garden to pray, and his disciples would soon fall asleep, flee him, and become […]
On May 13, 1981, an assassin’s gunshots were fired inside St. Peter’s Square. It was the day Pope St. John Paul II was set to deliver an inspiring message in support of human dignity, work, […]
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