You’d think presidential candidates would have learned that shooting from the lip in front of deep-pocket donors is asking for trouble....

QUÉBEC CITY. The exit signs along Autoroute 40 between the quondam capital of New France and Montréal are a veritable Litany of the...

Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, caused a rumpus...

Ever since the United Kingdom decided in June to leave the European Union, contending (and sometimes overlapping) explanations have been...

My local paper, the Washington Post, is best read for its sports and op-ed pages and its often-sensible editorials on foreign policy....

The following, instructive nugget comes from Times of London columnist Tim Montgomerie, writing in late July after a visit to a South...

I grew up in what you might call a genetically-Democratic family, but one in which partisan heterodoxy was not uncommon. My parents voted...

In the 1960s, Popes John XXIII and Paul VI initiated a new Vatican approach to the countries behind the iron curtain, the Ostpolitik....

Had I the resources, the one new book I’d give every delegate to the national political conventions meeting later this month is James...

CRACOW. With World Youth Day 2016 beginning here in less than three weeks, thoughts naturally turn to Pope St. John Paul II and his...

At a moment like this when there doesn’t seem to be a lot going right – ascendant authoritarianisms throughout the world; lethal violence...

Baseball is by far the most Catholic of the sports on which we lavish such attention and passion. Because it’s played without a clock,...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, recently told an Italian journal that relations between the Vatican and the...

If Catholics in the United States are going to be healers of our wounded culture, we’re going to have to learn to see the world through...