Larry Chapp spent the last month in Rome commentating on the Synod on Synodality. His letters on the Synod were published at First Things. I

Are we experiencing a great unveiling in the world today? If so, cinema tells the story in all its bleakness, and also offers us hope.

Americans must reclaim the meaning of words like faith, hope, and love, resist the tendency to see the nation as a substitute Church, and...

Leave it to Old World rockers to take us into the dark depths before finally pointing us to the light.

For my ancestors, as for me, to be an American has meant being part of greater Europe.

Death sets into relief questions of ultimacy and purpose: What am I living for? What ought I to live for? What is all this creation for?

What does “our culture” mean now to everyone else?

During my summer vacation in 2008, I borrowed my mom’s copy of Pope Benedict XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth: Part One. The book changed my life,...

A cloud is overshadowing the West — a cloud of despair. Even the believing Christian lives below it in a metaphysical desert, with faith ban

Originally published in Evangelization & Culture, Issue No. 16 “Pope Benedict XVI,” Summer 2023 By Andrew Petiprin In 1987, angels stood...

By Andrew Petiprin In August 2023, Forbes reported that the National Football League was valued at $163 billion, which is roughly the...

My wife and I just returned from celebrating the Epiphany in Old Town Kraków. Throughout Poland, the Epiphany is celebrated with a...

The future does not look too bright at the close of 2023. But neither did it look too bright at the start of the year. In 2022, Russia...

Violence, oppression, manipulation, disease, and death: these are the topics with which I have been occupied during the last couple of...

With kind permission from my editor at Word on Fire, we are pleased to reproduce here a chapter from my new book, Popcorn with the Pope:...

In July 1993, U2 released its eighth studio album, Zooropa , an experimental follow-up to its universally-acclaimed Achtung Baby , whose...

Nine years ago, one of my closest friends disappeared. It was All Saints' Day, November 1st. My wife was teaching at a Polish school, and...

In January 2015, the infamous Harvey Weinstein wrote a column in Variety condemning the Islamist attack at the headquarters of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Calling the murderous rampage “a stunning blow against freedom of speech and freedom of joy,” Weinstein declared “this has become a fight, good versus evil.” Despite Weinstein’s known personal failings even at the time, his sentiment was broadly echoed by America’s liberal elite, with various Hollywood star

By Andrew Petiprin A major focus for us as we set forth on this new venture with the Spe Salvi Institute is proposing the idea of a...

Although I grew up in a southwest suburb of Chicago, my family liked to spend our weekends downtown. My father used to work in the Amoco...