Europe

Whatever comes of Trump's mad campaign to take Greenland, it’s the island's residents who will bear the brunt of it.

In France, ordinary citizens submit their grievances, or doléances, to the state. Will their government actually listen?

St. Godric’s transformation from successful merchant to ascetic hermit illuminates the ways people relate their religious beliefs to their wealth—in the Middle Ages and today.

Journalist Cole Stangler traces how Paris—despite its reputation as a creative mecca—became dominated by the dullest professions capitalism has to offer.

What is most unsettling about Denmark's drone incident is that it has revealed a nationalistic belligerence throughout the Danish media landscape.

European history shows how political messianism can destroy the souls of churches. Could that happen in the United States?

William Wordsworth’s response to “Nature” was not only spontaneous, but philosophical. His legacy lives on in England’s Lake District.

Stephen Harrigan’s book ‘Sorrowful Mysteries’ gives a stirring account of the historical, political, and spiritual impacts of the 1917 apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Fátima.

Italian politician Alcide De Gasperi was instrumental in Italy's transition from fascism to democracy. Now, he is on his way to becoming a saint.

The administration's approach to the Balkans is Trumpian in the truest form: fusing power politics with the pursuit of personal enrichment.

Brick by brick, Assyrian Christians are bringing new life to a shuttered church in London's western suburbs.

A visit to the Simonopetra Monastery reveals the challenging work of monastic living: What does it mean to "empty" ourselves?

“Reversing course” on the AfD would mean undoing the struggle of generations against the legacy of Nazism.

Tomáš Halík discusses his life as an underground priest during Communism, renewal in the Church today, and his book 'The Afternoon of Christianity.'

Patrick MacGill was a self-taught polymath, a celebrated poet and fiction-writer. He was also my grandfather.

Denmark is a historical anomaly: the world’s first socialist monarchy.

Poland shows how Catholicism and liberal democracy are not at odds.

In 'We Don’t Know Ourselves,' Fintan O’Toole examines the fitful way in which Ireland eventually embraced a secular liberal modernity.

Timothy Garton Ash’s new book blends history and memoir to provide political analysis of postwar Europe and the United States' role in the region.