Pope Leo XIV

The Tower of Babbling – The Stream

Since his first election in 2016, I’ve argued that Donald J. Trump is a reaction, not the cause of the social and political turbulence in the United States and across what remains of the free English-speaking world and Europe. When our feeble,…

Leo XIV’s Vision of Catholic Education

As part of the Jubilee celebrations, Pope Leo XIV laid out a vision for Catholic education over the last several days. He also declared St. John Henry Newman the 38th Doctor of the Church and the co-patron (with Thomas Aquinas) of Catholic…

What World and Time Is This?

One of the better ways of trying to understand a writer or speaker is to imagine what audience he thinks he’s addressing, and what he believes that audience most needs to hear. For the popes of the last half century or so, I think I pretty much…