Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
The Catholic Church’s German Crisis
The twenty-first-century Church owes a lot to twentieth-century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the…
A New Christian Zionism
Critics of Christian Zionism usually dismiss it for one or more of three reasons: (1) They say…
China’s New Consumerism
On a chilly afternoon last October, as my son and I walked through a bustling shopping district…
The Hero of Hungary
Today, we mark the fortieth anniversary of the death of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, a courageous Hungarian prelate…
The Mantle of Elijah
Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise—Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois…
Teach Us to Pray
Christians have watched in helpless horror at the release of videos of masked ISIS warriors shooting and…
When We Cared
Today, we mark the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. On April 24th, 1915, the nationalist Young…
Confession and the Armenian Genocide
My grandmother often talked about her father’s crucifixion to my mother and my aunt. Today my aunt…
A Genocide Remembered and Denied
On the night of April 24, 1915, as Constantinople’s Armenian community was deep in slumber following Easter…
“Wolf Hall” and Upmarket Anti-Catholicism
Wolf Hall, the BBC adaptation of Hillary Mantel’s novel about early Tudor England, began airing on PBS’s…
