One of the greatest privileges I have as a bishop is the opportunity to preside at the sacrament of Confirmation. A drawback, however, is that I am obligated to conduct over forty Confirmations in roughly […]
Thirty-five years ago, on June 7, 1982, Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II met for the first time at the Vatican. The two were of one mind and one mission. It had been a […]
The King Arthur mythos seems to be an elusive creature for contemporary Hollywood to capture well. To date, I think the only decent representation of the story remains the 1963 Disney film The Sword and […]
“Life is very complicated, and only God knows.” With these words, the hero of José Luis Olaizola’s General Escobar’s War might well be summing up his own unusual life and career. For life is complicated […]
Last fall, four Cardinals submitted to Pope Francis their dubia on the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. This past month, six lay scholars from five continents joined the debate one year after the publication of […]
First Things has published an essay, written by Benedict XVI, that will be an afterword in future printings of Robert Cardinal Sarah’s recently published book The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise (Ignatius […]
This past week, we celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady to a group of shepherd children near the Portuguese town of Fatima. The series of Fatima appearances—lasting from May […]
Archbishop Robert Carlson, 72, has served as Archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri, since 2009. He is originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in 1970. He […]
When the subject of Chesterton Academy comes up, as it often seems to do when I am talking to people, I am asked about what is distinctive about a “classical” education. I answer that the three main […]
In case you didn’t notice, Pope Francis thinks legalism is a bad thing—and that’s good news. For legalism, correctly understood, is opposed to authentic morality. The Pope returned to this theme, a favorite of his, […]
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