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‘The Construction Sites of History’
In the wake of Trumpian destruction, Pope Leo's encyclical offers a model for rebuilding and repair.
Just Like Us
Patrick Deneen's 'American Odyssey' reads Homer instrumentally, transforming a rich epic into a neat model for social conservatism.

Burn It All Down

The Earth Liberation Front thought it could inspire an eco-revolution without the hard work of organizing. What can its failures teach us today?
Nick Tabor
‘All We Want Is to Live’
More than 5,000 children were separated from their families during the first Trump administration. What happened after they reunited?
Vatican Diplomacy & Vance’s End Times
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How will the Vatican engage with an American political theology that unfolds under the sign of the apocalypse?
A Division We Don’t Need
RaceCulture
Why have some prominent Black writers embraced nineteenth-century ideas about interracial partnerships?
Clifford Thompson
Right Up Against It
PoetryBooksCulture
Lawrence Joseph's poetry gives form to a beauty that is still somehow possible in our precise and horrible moment.
A Holy Handover
Latin AmericaReligious LifeArts
A Eucharistic celebration in Puebla displays a community's devotion and the central role of lay leaders in Mexican Catholicism.
A Pilgrim Among Pilgrims
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By participating in the rituals of a Lourdes pilgrimage, Pope Leo will join in a broader search for healing and peace.
A False Serenity
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J. D. Vance seems not to understand that, for Christians, the expectation of the end only deepens our obligations to the vulnerable.
Chad Pecknold’s New Job
ImmigrationTheologyDonald Trump
How should the Church respond to theologian Chad Pecknold's controversial decision to take a job in Trump's DHS?
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Long Dead, Long Resurrected
TheologyHistoryCulture
In every defiled rectory and every Catholic turned away by scorning catechists, God has died.
Anthony Amado
King Joe
SportsBooksCulture
Sometimes described as a “Black Moses,” boxer Joe Louis was a lodestar for his African American brothers and sisters.
Gordon Marino
Literature Is Not About You
BooksFiction
Reading great novels should be an encounter that makes you more human, not more productive.
Drew Calvert

Immigration

The Bishops vs. the Nativists
Chad Pecknold’s New Job
Changing the Calculus of Power
Community Organizing and the Resurrection

Pope Leo XIV

The Catholic Century
‘The Construction Sites of History’
A False Serenity
Vatican Diplomacy & Vance’s End Times

Spirituality

A 3:00 a.m. Meditation
Massimiliano Camaiti’s ‘Agnus Dei’
'No, But I Skimmed It'
The Wounded Walker

Archive

Celia Wren on 'The Office' (2005)
Grant Gallicho on How 9/11 Felt (2001)
Reinhold Niebuhr on Catholicism & Democracy (1953)