Foreign Affairs
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We Meet
Desmond Tutu once said that what holds Anglicans together is the fact that “we meet.” From 2000…
Learned Ignorance
On Wednesday evening, a capacity crowd assembled at the Calvary Chapel on the campus of Biola University…
Remembering “The Few”
Seventy-five years ago, on Sunday, September 15, 1940, Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine were driven from…
Did Muhammad Perform Miracles?
On Thursday, August 27, 2015, the first part of Iran’s most expensive movie trilogy, “Muhammad, the Messenger…
Who Was Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab?
Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab by michael crawford oneworld, 160 pages, $40.00 ISIS is only the latest (and certainly…
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…
