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When the Good Book Isn’t a Book

It’s long been a truism that Catholics don’t actually read the Bible — at least not as much or in the same way as their Protestant brethren. But they still encounter it.

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Failures of Will

Unhappy is the land that needs a hero. But much unhappier is the land that needs heroes and doesn't get them.

By Dominic Preziosi

April 18, 2025

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Trump’s Offshore Gulag

We are collectively failing to notice what is happening in plain view: a full-scale authoritarian takeover of the federal government.

By The Editors

April 17, 2025

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‘He Deals Out to the People His Life’

Not many poets can make silence resound as richly as Nate Klug can.

By Anthony Domestico

April 16, 2025

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Pilgrims, Presence, and American Power

The 1950 Jubilee Year was a landmark moment for American Catholics, who were coming into their own power—and wealth—during an era of Cold War upheaval.

By Kathleen Sprows Cummings

April 16, 2025

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