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Boomer Christianity may be dying, but the prospect of its being replaced by the old Crusader Christianity is dead on arrival.
Summoning more willpower couldn't keep Meghan O'Gieblyn sober. But perhaps the pursuit of beauty, inspired by Irish Murdoch and Simone Weil, could.

The Wrong Prayer

The Church’s leaders cannot assume that Catholics are familiar with 'Nostra aetate,' or that they are all aware of the Church’s long history of anti-Judaism.
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Pope Leo has focused on issues—immigration, economic justice, war and peace, and artificial intelligence—on which the American polity is hungry for moral guidance.
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, provocative art came to be leveraged for right-wing political power. We're still dealing with the consequences.
The aspiration to defeat Islamic extremism is not absurd—America's strategy to do so is.