George Weigel

Don't blame celibacy. To fight the plague of sexual abuse, the church needs to become more Catholic, not less.

The Vatican's call for Anglicans marks the end of an era.

What's on the agenda for the upcoming Benedict-Obama meeting.

To understand the pope's visit to the Holy Land, start with his view of Scripture.

Did the Pope heal, or deepen, the Lefebvrist schism?

Remembering Father Richard John Neuhaus

An Honorable Christian Soldier

An appreciation of Avery Cardinal Dulles, 1918-2008.

Why pro-life Catholic intellectuals are wrong

Should abortion be the litmus test for political support?

Posing the moral questions facing the next American president.

Are Obama and Pelosi dodging the life-and-death question?

Pope Benedict wants to revive the Latin mass in Roman Catholic worship. But what exactly does that mean?

Americans got to see the real Pope Benedict, not the cartoon Rottweiler.

The master teacher who follows John Paul is a moral leader who's begun an unprecedented conversation with Islam.

Why can't we call the enemy by its name? We're going to have to in order to win.

Whether or not Mitt Romney scores political points with his religion speech, he eloquently defended the notion that religiously informed morality has a role to play in civic discourse.

Book Excerpt: John wonders why Jesus has come down to the river. The answer is in the Cross and the salvation of the world.

The dramatic resignation this past Sunday of the newly installed archbishop of Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus, who admitted to having agreed to collaborate with the Polish secret police after initially denying any such involvement, has brought into the full glare of international attention a debate that has roiled the Catholic Church in Poland for two years: how should the church respond to the secret police files that are now housed in Poland's Institute of National Memory (IPN, in the Polish...

Rome and Constantinople formally parted ways via mutual excommunications in 1054, after centuries of controversy in which geography and language played perhaps as large a role as controverted questions of theology and liturgical practice.

Judging from the hysteria in some quarters after his election, you might have thought Pope Benedict XVI was ordering boxes of freshly polished thumbscrews to be brought to the papal apartments from the bowels of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ("...

All lives run along a set of rails: family background, native abilities, education, interests and habits. Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, was a man whose life ran along a particularly broad-gauged rail bed.