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Prophetic Words
Some bishops are speaking out about mass detention and deportation. But will they act again as a group at their November meeting?
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.

Gleeful Executioners

In the United States, our highest-profile leaders relish killing condemned prisoners. Only a truly unhealthy society could permit such brutality.
Dominic Preziosi
Love Songs
How not to despair in troubling times like these? Live, take notes, and compose poems of love.
Ahab vs. Predator
MoviesCulture
'PRIMETIME' depicts Chris Hansen's pathological bid to turn the hunt for pedophiles into television entertainment.
Longing for the Crusades
ReligionPoliticsCulture
Boomer Christianity may be dying, but the prospect of its being replaced by the old Crusader Christianity is dead on arrival.
Can Catholic Voters Tip the Midterms?
Election 2026PoliticsReligion
Since Catholic voters were pivotal in helping re-elect Trump, they could now step up to start trying to fix this mess.
Memory in the Digital Age
Artificial IntelligenceTechnologyReligion
Internet pioneer Vint G. Cerf warns that we are at risk of entering a digital Dark Age.
Night Walking
PoetryReligionSpiritualityBooks
Darkness is home to both the nihilist and the mystic. The poet and philosopher Kevin Hart moves openly in both of those directions.
The Bishops vs. the Nativists
ImmigrationPoliticsReligionBishopsDonald TrumpEditorial
The USCCB has largely risen to the occasion in condemning MAGA nativism. We hope voters will remove it from power with all due haste.
The Catholic Century
Pope Leo XIVInternationalPoliticsDonald Trump
The Catholic Church is now the default option for those seeking a Christianity capable of guiding a different kind of politics.
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There Is Power in the Blood
TheologyHistory
Jonathan Sheehan's history of sacrifice explores how people's beliefs about sacrifice in the past have been reappropriated today.
Michael Hollerich
The Errant Pilgrim
Health CarePriesthood
The radical priest Ivan Illich spotted disturbing trends in medicine that most doctors continue to overlook.
Ronald W. Dworkin
When Kids Ate Like Grownups
Nonfiction
In 'Picky,' Helen Zoe Veit chronicles the gradual dulling of American kids' palates.
Agnes R. Howard

Immigration

Prophetic Words
The Bishops vs. the Nativists
Chad Pecknold’s New Job
Changing the Calculus of Power

Pope Leo XIV

Gleeful Executioners
Clerics Without Clericalism
The Catholic Century
Rebuilding After Trump

Spirituality

Night Walking
A Memoir of Alcoholism and Attention
A 3:00 a.m. Meditation
Massimiliano Camaiti’s ‘Agnus Dei’

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G. K. Chesterton on the Poetry of St. Thomas (1933)
Reinhold Niebuhr on Catholicism & Democracy (1953)
Grant Gallicho on How 9/11 Felt (2001)