Previous installment The first decade of the fourth century, from about 302 to 313, is one of the most remarkable in history. In...

I recently returned home from the longest trip I’ve taken in a decade. I was blessed to be able to spend the whole month of September in Rome, working while there, and then a couple of weeks of traveling around on pilgrimage/vacation. Other than getting to spend a month in the eternal...

This is part of a series of articles and podcast episodes surveying the most important encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII. It has been almost three hundred years since the Catholic Church first condemned Freemasonry—when on April 28, 1738, Pope Clement XII published a bull forbidding all...

Let me propose a way to instantly improve the liturgy at your parish. Fear not, beleaguered pastors: it won’t require developing a new skill, arguing with a choir director, or getting in trouble with your bishop. Probably no one will complain, though if someone does, it’ll be a...

Erika Kirk’s statement of forgiveness for her husband’s assassin has to be the most God-glorifying act by an American public figure in a long while. I pray that this will be the pleasing offering to God that helps to turn our country around. Aside from Erika’s heroic...

Previous installment 36—Liberius (352-66) This is the first installment of the...

Previous installment So far in this series, we’ve seen a number of examples of early popes exercising...

Phil Lawler and Peter Wolfgang have written about President Trump’s attack on the Pope and its political implications. I want to focus on the issue of blasphemy, especially with regard to the image Trump posted of himself as Jesus. This is, in fact, the...

In the first installment of my series on the great encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII, I discussed Aeterni Patris, his encyclical on the restoration of Christian philosophy. Now it is time to get into the specific philosophical principles undergirding Leo’s social magisterium, beginning with his...

In reaction to a widely proliferating error, there will always be a minority falling unreflectingly into its opposite. In the present era of the Church, lax discipline and morals predominate—and so, vaguely aware that the Church was stricter in former, healthier times, some naively assume...