In the last few decades, the Church has been preoccupied with the condition of the world. It has sought to read the signs of the times and to interpret its precise ailments so that the […]
Major “Chuck” Sweeney had an extremely risky takeoff before dawn, loaded as he was with the 4.5-ton A-bomb, “Fat Man”. Now they were over their primary target, Kokura. He had made three runs over the […]
It is often the case that global events are best understood when viewed through the prism of the individual lives caught up in them. With the coming of the 70th anniversary of the bombing of […]
Only foreigners and politicians talk of ‘Britain.’” So wrote Englishman C. S. Lewis, deeming the British Empire a thing much too broad, big, and abstract to interest the true patriot. In Lewis’ reckoning “Great Britain” […]
Amidst weeks of tensions over the removal of church crosses in Zhejiang, China’s state officials have extended an olive branch to the Holy See by accommodating the Vatican’s wishes in the consecration of a new […]
It’s an accident of history that the present debate on the six-nation nuclear agreement with Iran overlaps the 70th anniversary of the first uses of atomic weapons in war. Religious believers rightly consider ‘accidents’ like […]
Every third summer, the Catholic lectionary provides a series of readings for Sunday Mass from the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John. This is the magnificently crafted chapter in which the evangelist’s Eucharistic theology […]
Queried about the Holy See’s less-than-vigorous response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, senior Vatican officials are given to saying (often with a dismissive tone, as if the question came from a dim-wit), “We take the […]
Many people believe that ever more comprehensive global governance is needed for the well-being and even survival of humanity. During the Soviet/American Cold War such concerns mostly had to do with the threat of nuclear […]
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