Fr. Luigi Giussani’s experience as a student and teacher made him especially attuned to the rhetorical challenge of helping young people mature in faith and reason.
Massimo Faggioli comments on the legacy of Don Lugi Sturzo, the Italian priest who resisted fascism and insisted on the right of lay Catholics to engage actively in politics.
Francis Oakley’s memoir about higher education emphasizes “the lifelong pursuit of liberal learning”—education through engagement with those who disagree with you.
The late Fr. Ted Hesburgh transformed the University of Notre Dame into a leading institution. A new book tendentiously ignores key aspects of his life and work.
In his work, the late historian John Lukacs embodied a Christian humanism, one that ideologues on both the left and right did their best to bury. He will be missed.
A lot of people fancy themselves history buffs, obsessing over names, dates, and numbers. But facts aren’t narratives. And history can’t be learned from a phone.
This year seems unusual, both for the number and scale of protests across the world. What links them is the growing demand for greater income equality.
The bishops’ insistence on abortion as the preeminent political issue reveals their resistance to Pope Francis’s call to serve the common good in all its complexity.
The territory along the Syrian-Turkish border is the ancestral homeland of an ancient tradition of Aramaic-speaking Christianity. They’ve been betrayed before.