The Blessed Ulma Family and Our Catholic Moment
It’s a rare occasion when the word “unprecedented” can be used for a Church whose history extends over two millennia. Yet something unprecedented happened in the Polish village of Markowa
Solidarity with a Martyr-Church
Ever since the 1596 Union of Brest re-established full communion between the Bishop of Rome and several ecclesiastical jurisdictions in Eastern Europe, what we know today as the Ukrainian Greek
A Work of Biblical Proportions
REVIEW: ‘The Word: How We Translate the Bible—and Why It Matters’ by John Barton On September 29, 1952, the D.C. Armory—capable of accommodating an audience of 10,000 and the site
Living Communio in Cracow
I wish all those who find themselves concerned, depressed, befuddled, or angry at the present state of the Church could have spent July 3–21 in that city of saints, Cracow,
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Remembering Bishop Victor Galeone
On first encountering Fr. Victor B. Galeone at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School in September 1965, my freshman classmates and I didn’t imagine we were meeting the future bishop
The Summer Reading List, 2023 Edition
Few of the following qualify as “beach reading”; they all qualify as good reading. In graduate school, I was informed that there was no such thing as “biblical theology,” only
Books for Christmas–2022
Last month’s midterm elections made it painfully clear that many pro-life advocates and politicians are at sea in the post-Roe v. Wade environment. Shawn Carney and Steve Karlen’s What to
On the Ever-Accelerating Passage of Time
In one of his Blackford Oakes novels, William F. Buckley Jr. had a character crack a Wagnerian joke along these lines: What is Siegfried? Siegfried is the opera that begins at 7 p.m.
The Summer Reading List: A Ukrainian Primer
Given the rubbish about Ukraine spewed out by Russian propaganda trolls and regurgitated by foolish or ideologically besotted Americans, this year’s annual summer reading list will focus on serious books
Holy Week 2022: A Wartime Meditation
In both the Roman and Byzantine liturgical calendars, Lent 2022 has coincided with a brutal war in Ukraine. That war was launched by Russia’s Vladimir Putin for an ignoble, imperial
Lent, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and the Liberating Lightness of Truth
If you’ve not been in the Vatican basilica on February 22, the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, by all means put that on your bucket list. Not only
The Sacred Earthiness of Christmas
ROME. A massive, sixteen-volume Lives of the Saints, first published between 1872 and 1877, informs me that, here in the Eternal City, the feast of Christmas first became a celebration distinct
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