Catholic Studies publication

The most important Catholic event of 2014 was the dramatic moment when Africa’s bishops emerged as effective, powerful proponents of dynamic orthodoxy in the world Church.

To surrender, supinely, before the aggressors in the culture wars—including the eugenicists—is a betrayal of the Gospel and a betrayal of the Church’s evangelical mission.

The familiar Christmas story and its well-known cast of characters shed light on a year in which the Church has been roiled by contention between today’s shepherds and today’s Magi: between those who, today, hear angels singing, and those whose experience of the faith has been thoroughly “demythologized” and intellectualized.

The ordinary synod of 2015 ought to reflect more clearly the three concerns that Pope Francis expressed in his closing address to synod 2014: a passionate concern for mission, a compassionate concern for people in difficult situations, and a committed concern for the settled truths of the Catholic faith.

In its coverage of Pope Francis, the mainstream media continues to filter out all the things the pope says that don’t fit the now-established “narrative.”

Very little of the world order of which the United States has been the linchpin and guarantor will be left on January 21, 2017. Indeed, there is very little of that post-Cold War order left today.

George Weigel presents his annual list of recommendations sure to please deserving readers on your Christmas list.

The wisdom of Catholics who resisted the Third Reich offers some guidance to those today who grapple with the quandaries of political modernity.

The Maidan “revolution of dignity” in Ukraine has reminded those with eyes to see and ears to hear of truths that form the moral and cultural foundation of the Western experiment in democracy and ordered liberty.

For the past year, top leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church have functioned as agents of Russian state power in matters having to do with Ukraine.

George Weigel talks with Major-Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk about the quest for a new and reformed Ukraine.

The new cosmology makes possible a new dialogue between physics and theology, or, more broadly, between science and religion.