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On April 16, 1783, the holy vagabond Benoit Joseph Labre died in Rome, where he was beloved. He could neither read nor write. He had tramped through the length...

In Traditionis Custodes, Pope Francis has given a command. He does this at a time when papal authority is unraveling as never before. The Church has long since advanced...

It is a scrupulously made short film, shot with several ­cameras in 2015. Arabic letters dance atop a black background, as if afloat on a whirling current of water,...

Robert Spaemann, who passed away on December 10, 2018, at age 91, was a crucial voice among those contemporary philosophers who acknowledge that human reason can know truth and,...

I was fifteen when I first saw Rome. One of my mother’s sisters had invited me to stay with her; we lived in a little hotel near the Via...

This year marks the three hundredth birthday of one of the most influential art scholars ever to have lived. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, born in 1717 in the town of...

(English | Deutsch) Die Winckelmann-Formel In diesem Jahr begeht die Gemeinde der Kunstfreunde den 300. Geburtstag eines der einflußreichsten Kunstgelehrten der neueren Geschichte. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 1717 im märkischen...

One shouldn’t speak of a “cult of personality” when describing the papal devotional items that are offered to the hordes of pilgrims and tourists round about Saint Peter’s in...

( English Version | German Version ) The times in which a new form is born are extremely rare in the history of mankind. Great forms are characterized by...

( English Version | German Version ) Die Zeiten, in denen eine neue Form geboren wird, sind äußerst rar in der Menschheitsgeschichte. Es muß viel zusammenkommen, damit so etwas...

The Catholic Martin Mosebach and the Muslim Navid Kermani are fascinated by one another’s faith. A conversation about true and false tolerance – and about how Islam is misunderstood...