George Weigel
Obama scuttles. America retreats. Things fall apart
The 44th President of the United States replaced Pax Americana with a new world disorder. Will the 45th learn from his mistakes?
Maidan is a Reminder of our Forgotten Values
In toppling Yanukovych, Ukrainians risked their lives to tell the West that true freedom means more than just individualism
A Roman Pilgrimage
The Roman station church pilgrimage of Lent, an ancient Christian tradition, was revived in the late 20th century by Anglophone believers living in Rome and led by the seminarians and student-priests of the Pontifical North American College. The pilgrimage winds its way through the city from Ash Wednesday through the Octave of Easter: a specific church is assigned as the “station” of each day, in a sequence first formalised by Pope St Gregory the Great in the late sixth century.
Liberty, Faith and Obama’s Leviathan
The US administration’s assault on religious freedom is just part of its wider attack on the institutions of civil society
Benedict XVI and the Future of the West
Pope Benedict XVI champions Evangelical Catholicism, a dynamic concept of faith in the line of Leo XIII and John Paul II, which challenges the West’s current understanding of the relationship between church and state
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Quebec’s approach to garbage disposal shows that political correctness is thriving in Canada
Britain Can Benefit from Benedict
The first state visit by a Pope is dogged by scandal, but Britons should relish this unique encounter with an extraordinary man
The Pope Versus the Vatican
Four years into his pontificate, Benedict XVI faces a crisis. Rome needs a revolution if his global mission is to succeed
Pope on a Mission to Surprise
Benedict XVI has confounded the critics who expected him to be a ‘caretaker’ pontiff
China has a strategy and Britain doesn’t
A roadmap to better relations requires realism. Beijing’s interests and goals are openly stated—if you know where to look
The plague
Standpoint goes to press as the pandemic rages. So too does the search for blame and the political fall-out
Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics