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Waiting in Darkness
The United States' sanctions in Cuba are a kind of violence, depriving Cubans of basic health and safety.
Joy Gordon
Leaning into Catholic Identity
These are tough times for Catholic colleges and universities. A commitment to educating the whole person remains the best path forward.
Heidi Schlumpf

A Proper Education

In fiction and nonfiction by Black American Catholics, the parochial school looms large as a place of education, formation, and conversion—for good or ill.
Aaron Robertson
Humble Work
Many of us have jobs we don’t enjoy. Fr. James Martin explains how we can make our work meaningful anyway.
Catholic Cliques
ReligionPoliticsCulture
"On many days I wish I liked Catholics more, and I guess I wish my fellow Catholics had liked me more."
Paul Baumann
The Impossibility of a Saint
MoviesCultureEurope
In the world of Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, things are dire—but it’s often difficult to take them seriously.
Alexander Stern
Keep It Private
BooksDomestic AffairsEconomy
How did Americans become convinced that social problems are better left to the “free” market than to a democratically accountable government?
George Scialabba
Leo Looks to the Council
Vatican IIPope Leo XIV
Pope Leo’s emphasis on Vatican II reminds us that American Catholics have long sought a meaningful synthesis between Catholicism and democracy.
Stephen McNulty
Dancing on a Volcano
HistoryNonfictionEurope
In Ian Buruma’s telling, Berlin during World War II was a time of contradictions: hedonism, escapism, heroism, and compromise.
Bryn Stole
The Serpent in the Garden
PhilosophyPoliticsFar-rightBooks
Why do conservatives blame ‘cultural Marxism’ for nearly everything?
Matt McManus
Humanity on the Page
CultureBooksArtificial Intelligence
What is the future for literature in a world where machines churn out plausible facsimiles of our most artful human narratives?
Rand Richards Cooper
Popular
The Serpent in the Garden
Matt McManus
Leaning into Catholic Identity
Heidi Schlumpf
‘No to War!’
Santiago Ramos
Perpetua Adoration
Eve Tushnet
Why Read?
Roosevelt Montás
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Technology

The Rise of the Catholic Chatbot
Wittgenstein’s Apocalypse
More than a Real Estate Deal
The First AI War

Middle East

Slouching Toward Beirut
Trump's War of Whim
Does International Law Have a Future?
A Mad King Attacks Iran

Bishops

Get Conversion Therapy Out of the Church
Real Solidarity with the Detained
Fight for the Fourteenth
The Gospel According to Tom Homan

Archive

George Shuster on the Legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1945)
Michael Harrington on the 'Other America' (1960)
Doris Grumbach on Women's Liberation & the Church (1970)