George Weigel

If your landscape plants have been sitting and "sulking," the cause might be one of two underlying problems that require a shovel.

Now's the time to do a few end-of-season jobs to help lawns stressed by summer's hot, dry spells.

Taking the Risk of Freedom

Our rainfall this year might look "normal" on paper, but it was functionally dry much of the time -- enough to make it a tough season on plants.

October was ridiculously dry – little to no rain all month throughout most of Pennsylvania and parched enough to send 33 of our counties (including all of the south-central Pennsylvania region) into drought-watch status

On this Veteran’s Day, I think it’s good to remember the quotidian life of a very junior naval officer during World War II.

That the degrading, embarrassing, and evangelically destructive Vatican-China agreement has been renewed is nothing short of scandalous.

Waiting until the leaves drop in fall is a rule of thumb for pruning shade trees, mainly because you can see bare limbs better, and the job is less “messy” without leaves attached to the cut branches.

In the annals of historical boorishness, it would be hard to find something more egregious than the Holy See's timing as it renewed its 2018 agreement with the People's Republic of China, which allows the Chinese Communist party a significant role in the appointment of Catholic bishops. That renewal took place on October 22: the liturgical memorial of Pope St. John Paul II, whose defense of religious freedom helped bring down European communism, and whose burning desire to visit China was repulsed by a Communist regime that obviously feared he might ignite another revolution of conscience there. The mind boggles at the juxtaposition.