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Embassy Vatican: Some Demystifications

December 18, 2024, 5:00 am

A change of presidential administrations typically leads to changes in U.S. diplomatic personnel abroad, especially at the ambassadorial level. This, in turn, leads to speculations, some of them zany,...

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Jimmy and the Patriarch, at Christmas

December 23, 2024, 5:00 am

The post-Christmas liturgical calendar may seem a bit Scrooge-like, as the child-centered, innocent joy of the Nativity is quickly followed by three feasts of a different, even sobering, character....

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Jubilee 2025: New Year’s resolutions and resources

January 2, 2025, 5:00 am

Jubilee 2025 began on Christmas Eve 2024, with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s in Rome, and will conclude on January 6, 2026, when that door of the Vatican basilica is closed. The theme of...

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Stacked decks, “Conversation in the Spirit,” and the Catholic future

January 8, 2025, 5:00 am

Various cultures — English, Turkish, Chinese — claim to have invented the maxim, “The fish rots from the head down” (a favorite in Your Nation’s Capital during the unhappy years when the...

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From Doubting Thomas to Doubting Peter?

January 15, 2025, 5:00 am

Ralph Fiennes is a remarkable actor. And if he wins an Academy Award for his brilliant performance in Conclave, this section of his masterfully delivered homily to the College of Cardinals, of which he...

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Joe Biden: When The Last Hurrah met Catholic Lite

January 22, 2025, 5:00 am

Four years ago, this column praised the courage of Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles, then-president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), for his Inauguration Day letter to President...

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Catholics, Hippocrates, and reforming American medicine

January 29, 2025, 5:00 am

I am the odd man out in a family of medical folk. My maternal grandfather was a physician; his daughter, my mother, was a medical technologist; my mother-in-law, a nurse. My brother is a physician; so...

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Manners, methods, and greatness

February 5, 2025, 5:00 am

Browsing Footprints in Time, the memoirs of Winston Churchill’s longtime private secretary, John Colville, I found a tale from eighty years ago with a lesson for American public life today. The...

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Russia’s sacrilegious war on Ukraine

February 12, 2025, 5:00 am

Today’s Russian Orthodox leadership is a theological, moral, and pastoral train wreck. U.S. foreign policy can’t fix that. Nonetheless, those responsible for devising U.S. foreign policy should...

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Cathedrals and us

February 19, 2025, 5:00 am

The Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the nation’s capital is a magnificent Neo-Gothic structure, based on 14th-century English models, that calls itself “Washington National Cathedral”: a...

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