Blaming the Wartime Pope
During the second world war, Pope Pius XII was lauded for his singular efforts to halt the carnage, writes Newsweek's Kenneth Woodward.
Out of the Closet and into Chastity
My pilgrimage from being a homosexual-rights activist to living life as a chaste Catholic began in earnest when I read the writings of a modern-day Protestant martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Catholics at the back of the line
Archbishop Cordileone delivered the following homily at St. Mary's Cathedral Plaza in San Francisco on September 20, 2020.
The old lies of the Young Turks
Reflections on the Armenian Genocide on the 100th anniversary.
At the Mercy of One False Brother
David Pierre of Media Report has published an illuminating new book, "The Greatest Fraud Never Told: False Accusations, Phony Grand Jury Reports, and the Assault on the Catholic Church."
Repairing the Foundations
Suppose you have homes falling to pieces everywhere in your town.
A Lesson for Aspiring Academics: On Alice von Hildebrand’s Happy Failure
In her memoirs of teaching at Hunter College for nearly forty years, Alice von Hildebrand shows aspiring academics the importance of perseverance, courage, and love in the face of hostility toward one's moral and religious views.
Dawn of the Woke
I was a Senate page boy for a couple of summers in the early Eisenhower years.
Why totalitarian regimes make so many martyrs
The history of the Church is written in the blood of the martyrs.
Beyond Reparations
There is no proposal so foolish that it has no advocates, or sometimes even its fanatics. If hope springs eternal in the human breast, delusion springs eternal from the human head.