Weekly Update

On Veterans Day and the feast of St. Martin of Tours, we reflect in gratitude on the hard-won peace we have so often enjoyed and commit ourselves to using it rightly.

Election night, which fell on the feast of All Souls, reminds us of the difficulties of political prognostication and transitoriness of this world. Memento mori!

An author reflects his reasons for paying his daughter to go to church, Cardinal Pell examines the role of the Church in secular democracies, and the scandal of the Church.

St. John Paul II was and remains a model for a confident and charismatic Catholicism in a wild and chaotic world.

Clickbait culture and a fixation on making the exceptional the norm have become deeply embedded in mainstream media.

Not all weekly news cycles are created equal. Slow weeks give us the chance to refresh and reset.

Cardinal Sarah rejects political labels and Mary Eberstadt reflects on the state of the Church.

A demographic winter, the Catholicism of Justice Clarence Thomas, the ignored Christians of Afghanistan, and a blow to the metric system in Britain.

The standard by which we as Christians judge what is important or to be considered failure is not the standard the world uses: our standard is the Cross.

On the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, we remember a tragedy that shaped how Americans view the world.