Leo’s engagement with Europe refuses the familiar language of “Christian roots.” Rather, it positions the Catholic Church in opposition to imperialism.

Innocence & Impotence

We are a people constantly at war and yet rarely in the crosshairs, using technology to offload the moral weight of our violent conflicts.

Sophia Sheehy Bulla

The Wounded Walker

The work of French Jesuit Michel de Certeau attempted to discern what lay beyond and beneath the glamor of postwar materialism.

Graham Ward

June 25, 2026

What Greg Grandin gets wrong about Leo

Paul Baumann

Ben Lerner’s ‘Transcription’

Anthony Domestico

Remembering Robert Coles

Kenneth L. Woodward

Whatever happened to synodality?

Heidi Schlumpf

Dots on a Map

In the third and final episode of “The City and the Cross,” host and inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson reckons with what was truly lost in Detroit’s 1989 parish closures and asks whether the Catholic Church is any more committed to its Black congregants today.

The City and the Cross

podcast U.S. Catholicism

In this three-part narrative podcast series, inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson chronicles the rise, erosion, and defiant survival of Black Catholic Detroit.

Aaron Robertson

Waidmannslust

Fiction Foreign Affairs

"There is always the risk that we will forget we are merely playing pretend and begin living inside our own fictions."

Linda Kinstler

Down to Earth

Arts Religion

Raphael's art places us at the precise point where humanity and divinity converge.

Griffin Oleynick

Whatever happened to synodality?

Synodality Sexual-abuse Crisis U.S. Catholicism

If their latest meeting is any indication, U.S. bishops may be letting synodality fade—even on issues as important as the abuse crisis.

Heidi Schlumpf

The Ownerist Society

Economy Secularism and Modernity History

Accumulating wealth is now the way many people seek to belong—to "buy" their place in the world. But an extrinsic source of belonging will always be fragile.

Ian Marcus Corbin