Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What Happens in Germany
In The Making of Martin Luther, the Cambridge scholar Richard Rex notes that 1518, not 1517, marks…
Ireland and the ‘Ensoulment’ Myth
On May 25, Irish citizens will vote on a referendum on whether to repeal the Eighth Amendment…
A Homily to Remember
Surveying a throng of English royalty, political officials, visiting dignitaries, beautified guests, and various celebrities and other…
The Chilean Bishops Crisis
With the mass resignation of 34 Chilean bishops, we have reached the decisive moment of the Francis…
Capitalism vs. Tradition in Italy
Last year, Valeria Ferrara chained herself to the front of a Calvin Klein outlet store in Castel…
The Holy See, China, and Evangelization
In a recent interview, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, suggested that certain…
Freedom Is Never Free
When I first visited Lviv, the principal city of western Ukraine, in 2002, the transportation from plane…
Decline and Fall of the BBC
Click, and off it goes into the electronic void. For the third time this year I have…
A Diagnosis of Moralosis
An odd thing happened in Ireland on Easter Sunday. A politician, a senator who had been chairperson of…
Check the Box and Take the Cash
Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is well over halfway through its statutory four-year mandate, and the prime minister…
Patriarch Kirill and Mr. Putin
The annals of sycophancy are, alas, replete with examples of churchmen toadying to political power. Here in…
Xi Jinping’s Village
In Liangjiahe, a small village in central China, visitors can tour the sites that formed Xi Jinping.…
The Heroism of Arnaud Beltrame
On March 23 in the French town of Trèbes, an ISIS attacker entered a supermarket, killed two…
Memory, Identity, and Patriotism
The second volume of my biography of St. John Paul II, The End and the Beginning, benefited…
Italy’s Rebellion
Identity, tradition, and religion have new prominence in Italy after the recent election. The Northern League, once…
