An illuminating and instructive example of the coincidence of manliness and sanctity is in the person of St. Thomas Aquinas.

George Weigel brings his monumental biography of Pope John Paul II to completion with a new volume: The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy.

Why should Catholics measure their own success on the criteria of their enemies?

Benedict arrives at the spot where Catholic worship was once a beheading offence.

Benedict is the great Catholic thinker of his generation, a writer of limpid style and the simplicity only achieved by those who have reached the far side of scholarly wisdom. Newman was that for the 19th century.

Many may not have noticed the ascent of John Henry Cardinal Newman up the exacting heights of the blessed and toward the officially saintly, a progress that will bring Pope Benedict XVI to England this month.

Remembering Mother Teresa, born 100 years ago.

I love Hitchens and I know I am not alone among orthodox Catholics.

There is a lesson that Calcutta burned deeply into my soul.

Timidity disguised as charity can do more harm than anger.