Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Burning Churches in Israel
Earlier this summer, in the spot on the Sea of Galilee traditionally hailed as the site of…
Taking the “Long View” on Russia
Queried about the Holy See’s less-than-vigorous response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, senior Vatican officials are given…
A Good Word for Locke
The lecturer was setting forth a biblical perspective on the role of government, with special attention to…
How Gay Marriage Came to Ireland
Alexis de Tocqueville famously observed of revolutions that they were both inevitable and surprising, and this is…
Cuban Hopes for the Papal Visit
In early June, the distinguished Catholic editor Dagoberto Valdés Hernández, a leader of the Cuban democratic opposition,…
Happy Canada Day, Bastards
Happy Canada Day, America! One decade later, your judges have turned you, too, into a nation of…
A Response from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
The following letter from Archbishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS), is a…
The Latin American Pope and the Irish Poet
A great variety of people are looking forward to reading and digesting Pope Francis’s new encyclical, Laudato…
Now, the Kasper Theory of Democracy?
A few weeks ago, after Ireland voted to approve so-called “same-sex marriage,” a correspondent sent me an…
What Have We Learned From the Iraq War?
Knowing what we know now,” would you have invaded Iraq? Jeb Bush stumbled over this question. His…
The Religious Crowds
In the 2002 Brazilian film City of God (Cidade de Deus), the narrator, Rocket, provides the audience…
False Devils
As they stand, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) do, contrary to Monsignor Sorondo’s assertion noted in an article published…
Ireland: A Country Without a Conscience?
Ireland’s recent decision to approve same-sex marriage, by popular referendum, has left the country’s Catholic reputation in…
The Wrong Way to Respond to Critics
Last month, Jeffrey Sachs and Ban Ki-moon, arguably the most powerful proponents of abortion and population control…
Putin, Stalin, and the Church
On Orthodox Easter, just weeks before Russia’s seventieth Victory Day celebration, Russian Patriarch Kirill addressed scores of…
