When, after fifteen years of voluntary exile, Dietrich von Hildebrand managed to come back to his beloved Munich in 1948, there was much...

The world woke up to the news that on February 28th, 2013 at 8 p.m. the Throne of Peter will be vacant. The response was shock and...

The changes in the liturgy since Vatican II are so striking that many of my lapsed-Catholic friends who recently have started to attend...

One of the many ethical gems that Plato has left us is to be found in his last work: The Laws—a work alas often neglected by scholars...

Someone close to me, noticing that I was wearing a scapular, exclaimed with a mixture of pity and contempt, “I did not know that you were...

If anyone asked me, “What is the book on the spiritual life that you would recommend not only to beginners, but also to people who have...

Our Holy Father has appointed a commission to examine whether or not women should be granted the diaconate. The question I raise is: Is it..

Pierre Macq, Rector of the Catholic University of Louvain (CUL), claims that the University is not in conflict with the Catholic Church...

A perusal of Kierkegaard’s works is bound to strike the contemporary man with wonder: not only did the great Danish thinker pre-live the...

One of the great contributions Aristotle has made to philosophy is his distinction between means and ends. This insight gives us a key to...

According to Plato, "Any change except to eliminate an evil, is an evil." It is easy to caricature this assertion and label Plato a...

Innumerable men long to escape the waves of meaningless violence, and to some, Buddhism seems to offer a solution. It is associated with...

One of the most burning topics today is the relationship existing between "truth" and "charity." I shall defend the thesis that they are...

In 1980, I was granted the extraordinary privilege of a private audience with His Holiness Pope John Paul II. Knowing that John Paul had a..

Joanna Bogle's article on Cardinal von Galen ("The Bishop vs. the Nazis," February, 2008) is highly welcome. So many lies have gained...

When at the age of eleven, I took a course on seventeenth-century French literature—French is my beautiful mother tongue—I made the...

The word “bankruptcy” is a nightmare to finance people. Literature is eloquent on this topic. Consider Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit...

John Paul II will leave us a precious legacy: his staunch defense of life, and his theology of the body. He has succeeded in unveiling...

If there is one thing we all dread, it is suffering. A newborn baby will already respond with screams to any discomfort...

Many schools and universities pride themselves on having finally acknowledged that the difference between men and animals is minimal...