Praying for Our Country with John Carroll

by George Weigel

A regular recitation of John Carroll’s eloquent prayer might be one small step toward the regeneration of the American spirit in the Year of Our Lord 2024.  Continue Reading »

27 Dec 2023

Remembering Two Great Bishops

by George Weigel

We American Catholics are, in the main, notoriously uninterested in our own history. So it likely escaped the notice of many that December 3 marked the bicentenary of the death of John Carroll, one of the greatest who ever lived among us. The adjective “first” is applied to John Carroll more . . . . Continue Reading »

16 Dec 2015

The Bishops in Council

by Timothy M. Dolan

Twenty-five years ago this month, Pope John Paul II made his first pastoral visit to the United States, meeting the American bishops in Chicago. In his address to them, the former university professor used a style that was both innovative and pedagogically effective: he quoted from an array of . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Apr 2005