Fly-Casting Before D-Day
by George WeigelDwight Eisenhower did not think of politics as performance art. Continue Reading »
A New Patron Saint for Catholic Journalism
by George WeigelAs 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 »
Two Families and the Communion of Saints
by George WeigelChristians live in a different time zone because of the communion of saints: our spiritual solidarity, in this world, with those Christians who now live in the presence of the Thrice-Holy God and those who are being purified. Continue Reading »
Down to Earth
by Ephraim RadnerGertrude Stein characterized the young men and women emerging from the wreckage of World War I as the “lost generation.” I had Stein’s words in mind while reading Vera Brittain’s memoir, Testament of Youth, published in 1933. The book is a classic of the period, written from the . . . . Continue Reading »
A Terrible Choice Indeed
by John KeownThe nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was immoral, and gravely so. Continue Reading »
Truman's Terrible Choice, 75 Years Ago
by George WeigelTruman authorized the use of the atomic bombs thinking, rightly, that doing so would save American and Japanese lives by shocking Japan into surrender. Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by VariousIn September 1944, Helmuth von Moltke sat in Berlin’s Tegel prison, awaiting execution. The Nazis had arrested him for organizing the Kreisau Circle, a resistance group formed to plan a more democratic future Germany. Helmuth’s death drew near, yet, as his wife Freya wrote to him, “The best . . . . Continue Reading »
Auschwitz and “Intrinsic Evil”
by George WeigelThe lethal reality of what happened at Auschwitz-Birkenau stands in contradiction to the claim that there are no “intrinsically evil acts.” Continue Reading »
Failed Leaders
by R. R. RenoSuicides among Americans aged ten to twenty-four increased by more than 50 percent between 2007 and 2017. The suicide rate for all ages rose by nearly 30 percent between 1999 and 2016. This is not an isolated trend. Life expectancy in the United States is falling, a shocking trend for a rich . . . . Continue Reading »
The Dogmatic Principle
by R. R. RenoLast month I made a pilgrimage to St. Mary’s Church, the university church at Oxford, when I was visiting that ancient city of dreaming spires. Ridley, Latimer, and Cranmer were tried and convicted there for Protestant heresy. But I did not have those men in mind. It was from the pulpit of St. . . . . Continue Reading »
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