April 2, the eighteenth anniversary of John Paul II’s death, was a cold, rainy day in Poland. Yet upwards of 50,000 Poles descended upon Warsaw in a march defending St. John Paul II against slander. Continue Reading »
The temptation to respond to attacks with force can be severe. Over four decades of columnizing in the Catholic press and elsewhere, I have generally resisted those temptations except under the gravest provocations. This is one of those occasions. Continue Reading »
The encounter with God is inseparable from the encounter with our fellow human beings. Continue Reading »
In To Sanctify the World, I suggest that the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI should be understood as one, continuous, thirty-five-year arc of conciliar interpretation. Continue Reading »
Surely one assassination attempt against the pope whose teaching and example animate the living parts of the world Church was enough. Continue Reading »
Those demeaning John Paul’s intellectual and moral heroism in a lame attempt to defend the Liquid Catholicism that has proven an evangelical failure everywhere are examples of intellectual exhaustion and evangelical cowardice in the face of woke cultural aggression. Continue Reading »
Pope Francis is not—as the American media would have it—a relativist softie. He is staunchly pro-life. Continue Reading »
In print and in person, First Things nourishes a sense of the real. Continue Reading »
To fully understand the meaning of the attempted assassination of John Paul II forty years ago, it is necessary to go back to 1966 and ahead to 2000. Continue Reading »
St. John Paul II offers guidance for Christians seeking to understand the family policy debate. Continue Reading »
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