If exit polls hold, yesterday Italy elected its first female prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. The usual liberal voices will not…

I’ve been a pilgrim for the past two weeks in Portugal and Spain – and that place of prophetic miracle,…

There are several reasons why a work of art owned by a museum is not on display: there is no…

In The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton relates an encounter with his friend and fellow Columbia University student, Bob Lax….

This morning, Deo volente and despite United Airlines, your correspondent is more or less standing, jetlagged but alert, in Rome….

The Marxist government of Nicaragua placed a Catholic bishop and several priests under house arrest last week and closed a…

The editor of a Catholic publication anno Domini 2022 often receives insightful messages from readers, friends, even enemies – some…

Much of the world’s great art is part of the patrimony of our Church. Every Leonardo; every Michelangelo; every Caravaggio…

Anyone paying attention to American society today can’t help but notice that the public space afforded to religion has shrunk…

was reading the description in a very fine novel of a death and burial when the thought crossed my mind:…