COMMENTARY: The quiet of Christmas Eve and the revelry of New Year’s marked a great moment of history with Pope St. John Paul ...

John Paul II was buried this morning and as part of a day of tribute RTE television (Irelands national station) showed "Witness to Hope". At 2hrs long I didn't think I would watch the entire programme ...

Looking through a camera’s eyepiece forced me to confront not only the world’s harshest realities but also my own limits as a witness to history. For over a decade I have been ... Yet, as much as I ...

Days leading to Thanksgiving and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, I was exploring Portugal and paid homage to Our Lady of Fatima. To be Catholic is to be Marian. But I don’t think reverence to ...

In “Witness to Hope,” one of my most favorite books and biography of St. John Paul II penned by Catholic theologian and scholar George Weigel, the teenage Karol Wojtyla was said to have ...

I am accustomed to seeing Poland as a symbol of hope—as a witness to hope, as my friend George Weigel called his biography of the most significant Pole since Copernicus. There are people who ...

Prosecutors in the case against the Dublin firefighter accused of rape in Boston, Massachusetts, over St Patrick’s Day weekend will be calling additional witnesses from Ireland to testify.

All good things end, and Lawrence Weigel took his engaging renditions of local customs with him when he passed. Thinking now of loved ones sitting around holiday tables makes me hope that someone ...

At least three people are dead in a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, including a juvenile who police believe is responsible for the shooting. Multiple other people ...