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As chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, John Lee is the principal enforcer of the Chinese communist regime’s ever-tightening chokehold on his city’s liberties. Earlier this month,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Cardinal George Pell: The Encourager
I know of few, if any, public figures who have displayed the moral courage George Pell displayed for decades.
On the Death and Requiem of Cardinal George Pell
The embodiment of Catholic fearlessness, Cardinal George Pell, has gone to his eternal reward.
Bob Andrews: A Large and Patriotic Life
He loved the United States and was the best kind of patriot: one who could recognize the country’s flaws and do whatever he could to fix them.
The End of an Era, the Temper of the Man
The generations whose story ends with the funeral and burial of Joseph Ratzinger were something quite special.
Parting Reflections
May he rest in peace, far from the caricatures and calumnies of lesser men.
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