Vatican III? Where?

Posted: Friday, February 10, 2012
There are many good arguments against quickly convening a Third Vatican Council -- a notion beloved of Catholics who occupy the portside cabins on the Barque of Peter.  [Full Story]

Seekers or Finders?

Posted: Friday, February 3, 2012
All believers are "seekers," but the ultimate point is not about the seeking, but about the finding.  [Full Story]

Child Sacrifice in 21st Century America

Posted: Friday, January 27, 2012
Thirty-nine years after Roe v. Wade created an unrestricted abortion license in the United States, and during the week when hundreds of thousands of Americans pray and march for life, all Americans ought to ponder the kind of country to which Roe v. Wade led.  [Full Story]

Václav Havel and Us

Posted: Friday, January 20, 2012
After his death, Václav Havel's brilliant literary deconstruction of the moral tawdriness of late bureaucratic communism, the underground essay called "The Power of the Powerless," was widely and appropriately quoted. Another Havel essay from his days in opposition also bears re-reading: "The Anatomy of a Reticence," the Czech playwright's 1985 critique of the willful blindness of western peace activists about the nature of Soviet totalitarianism.  [Full Story]

Converts and the Symphony of Truth

Posted: Friday, January 13, 2012
There are as many reasons for "converting" as there are converts. If there is one common thread among them, it may just be the enticement of what Blessed John Paul II called the "symphony of truth."  [Full Story]

Gehry's Ghastly Eisenhower Memorial

Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
The present Eisenhower Memorial design, by postmodernist Frank Gehry, is an aesthetic and historical travesty having virtually nothing to do with the Dwight David Eisenhower of history.  [Full Story]

Breaking Bad Liturgical Habits II

Posted: Friday, January 6, 2012
The introduction of the third edition of the Roman Missal and the new translations of the liturgical texts offer the entire English-speaking Church an opportunity to correct some bad liturgical habits that have developed over the past four decades.  [Full Story]

The Weakness of Tyranny

Posted: Wednesday, January 4, 2012
What drives history over the long haul is culture: what men and women cherish, honor, and worship; what men and women are willing to stake their lives, and their children's lives, on. The truest realism, therefore, is one shaped by truths and ideals, not only by calculations of power.  [Full Story]

Christmas, the Infinite, and the Finite

Posted: Friday, December 23, 2011
Christmas faith inspires righteous living, not by fear, but by love: the love that expresses itself in history in the humility of the Incarnation and the Holy Birth; the love that speaks of the glory of God, "wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger."  [Full Story]

Time Out with Professor George Weigel

Posted: Monday, December 19, 2011
EPPC's Distinguished Senior Fellow, George Weigel, spoke with Fiona Basil of the Kairos Catholic Journal during a recent trip to Australia.  [Full Story]