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To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II

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Archbishop Fernández and the Learning Curve

Pope Francis has just given the Vatican his Ratzinger,” declared one July 2 headline; “Pope Francis Finds His Ratzinger,” announced another, four days later. Both quickie assessments of Argentinian Archbishop

Ike’s Insight

Three days before Christmas 1952 and a month before his inauguration as the thirty-fourth president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the Freedoms Foundation at the Waldorf Astoria

Blessed Henri de Lubac?

On March 31, the bishops of France announced that they would petition the Holy See for permission to open a beatification cause for Father Henri de Lubac, S.J. Whatever the

John Paul II
Knowing Suffering from Inside

Imagine yourself as a twenty-year-old Polish worker living in a dingy apartment in Dębniki, a working-class neighborhood of Kraków, in early 1941. After a brilliant beginning to your university career,

The White-Martyr Cardinals’ Dinner

The conversation turned to those times when the Lord seems to be deaf to the pleas of his people—times not unlike what many Catholics experience today.

Parting Reflections

May he rest in peace, far from the caricatures and calumnies of lesser men. 

The True Joseph Ratzinger 

The key to the true Joseph Ratzinger, and to his greatness, was the depth of his love for the Lord Jesus.

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