Like all accounts of God’s faithfulness, mine begins with a genealogy. In the late seventeenth century, my mother’s Congregationalist ancestors journeyed to the New World to escape what they saw as England’s deadly compromise with Romanism. Centuries later, American Presbyterians converted my . . . . Continue Reading »
Obituaries for Toni Morrison, who died on August 5, remember her as a Nobel Prize–winning novelist, a black woman novelist, and the last great American novelist—never a Catholic novelist. Morrison converted to Catholicism at age twelve but stood aloof from the Church for years. Despite a few . . . . Continue Reading »
Sohrab Ahmari interviews Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke on the problems with the Amazon Synod and the German episcopate's “binding synodal path.” Continue Reading »
A spectre is haunting the preparations for next month’s Amazon Synod: the spectre of John Henry Newman. Continue Reading »
Through the twists and turns of its encounter with modernity, the Catholic Church has rediscovered the basic truth about itself. Continue Reading »
The conviction of Cardinal George Pell is an outrage—the case against him could not be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Continue Reading »
There has never been any “evidence” that Cardinal Pell did what he was alleged to have done. Continue Reading »
Jesus promises his followers that they will be hated in this world. “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates . . . . Continue Reading »
The faith of the Albanian people is strong. Continue Reading »
The Virgin's influence extends to American art. Continue Reading »
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