Memory and Identity
The strip of Pennsylvania that meanders along the Delaware River is soaked in American history.
The strip of Pennsylvania that meanders along the Delaware River is soaked in American history.
A few days after Cardinal Matteo Zuppi's appointment as head of a Vatican "peace mission" to "help ease tensions in the conflict in Ukraine" (as Vatican News put it), a startling picture appeared on page A1 of the Washington Post.
Faithful Catholics will affirm, with the Second Vatican Council and with the papal magisterium, that the Jewish people are indeed "the good olive tree onto which the wild shoot of the Gentiles has been grafted," that God's original Covenant with his chosen people is unbroken and unbreakable, that our bond with the Jewish people is a spiritual bond, rooted in a common spiritual patrimony, and that our Jewish neighbors are indeed our brothers and sisters in faith.
The Joseph Ratzinger I knew for 35 years—first as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, later as Pope Benedict XVI and then Pope Emeritus—was a brilliant, holy man who bore no resemblance to the caricature that was first created by his theological enemies and then set in media concrete.
One of the geniuses of our great nation has always been its disposition towards honest debate on matters of great import, coupled with a respectful tolerance of other people’s deeply held beliefs and moral convictions.
Tim Russert, the late, great anchor of NBC's Meet the Press, died in 2008.
An interview with Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, about faith and courage in a time of war.
Knights on the front lines offer their service—and their lives—to defend the country they love.