The Future of the Latin Mass in D.C.

by Evan Myers

Setting debates about the virtues and vices of the TLM aside, Cardinal Gregory’s decision will have serious, real-world consequences for parochial life in D.C. Continue Reading »

20 Jun 2022

Providence at Work in Poland

by Raymond J. de Souza

Against our bleak horizon, it seems impossible to hope that peace and liberty may prevail. But Providence is still at work, if hidden from our eyes. Continue Reading »

3 Jun 2022

A New Patron Saint for Catholic Journalism

by George Weigel

As of May 15, Catholic journalists around the world will be able to count one of their number among the saints, as Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite killed at the Dachau concentration camp in 1942, is canonized in St. Peter’s Square. Continue Reading »

11 May 2022

Dispiriting Signs for the Synod on Synodality

by Hans Feichtinger

Reform will only happen if the Church remembers that she exists because of Christ and “in order to evangelize,” as Paul VI said. Continue Reading »

26 Apr 2022

Why I Signed the Open Letter to Germany's Bishops

by Salvatore J. Cordileone

I hope and pray that the German bishops will listen to the Holy Father and their brother bishops and turn from their path of division.  Continue Reading »

14 Apr 2022

Michael Nazir–Ali on Becoming Catholic

by R. R. Reno

Fr. Michael Nazir–Ali joins the podcast to discuss his conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism. Continue Reading »

23 Mar 2022

The Conservative Genius of Catholicism

by Dan Hitchens

Those who claim that the Church has nothing to do except resist and condemn are mistaken; but they are less mistaken than those who think we should raise the gates and invite the enemy in.     Continue Reading »

11 Mar 2022

Alice von Hildebrand, Woman of Valor

by Mark Gottlieb

Let us not lose the opportunity to thank our maker for giving us the gift of Alice von Hildebrand, who arduously defended the truth through her formidable faculties of head and heart. Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2022

Sting in the Shadow of the Cross

by John Duggan

As his latest album demonstrates, a subset of Sting’s songs reverberates with the legacy of an urban English Catholic childhood of the 1950s and ’60s. Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2022

Catholicism and the Nation

by R. R. Reno

In 1965, the Second Vatican Council adopted Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. With this document, the Church sought to address “the whole of humanity.” In a way, this aspiration was not surprising. Christian doctrine holds that Christ died for the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2022