Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Grand Betrayal
Sometimes a grand betrayal serves as a mirror of truth, revealing that a person or institution has…
A Century After the Armistice
I’m just old enough to remember when my elders still called November 11 “Armistice Day”—the armistice in…
Shifting Tectonic Plates in Eastern Christianity
ROME. While Synod-2018 was trying to grasp the polyhedron-like character of “synodality” and wrestling with the differences…
A House Built on Sand
To visit the tomb of Servant of God József Cardinal Mindszenty, in Esztergom, Hungary, is, in a…
A Public Church, not a Partisan Church
WARSAW. The temptation to ally the Church with a particular political party and its program is a…
A Loving Ambivalence
The Controversy of Valladolid of 1550 was one of the great dramatic set pieces of the Spanish…
An Orthodox Fracture With Serious Consequences
While Catholicism has been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the…
Men of Lawlessness
St. Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians that the Day of the Lord cannot come “unless the…
Conjuring Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin’s poetry notoriously defies translation. Even Vladimir Nabokov made a mighty attempt at bringing Eugene Onegin,…
Europe’s Libyan Battleground
Libya was in the spotlight recently when heavy infighting between militias in Tripoli caused more than fifty…
The Mystery Parenthesis
In advance of Pope Francis’s visit to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families, I was invited…
Israeli Restoration
On July 9, Israel’s legislature passed “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People.”…
What Bibi and Orban Can Shake On
If a geopolitical observer had predicted a decade ago that Israel and Saudi Arabia would one day…
Poland’s Christian Migrants
Across the West, an electoral backlash against large-scale immigration has contributed to the successes of populist movements…
This Is England
Over the last four weeks, as the England football team made their unlikely journey to the World…
