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Christian Smith wants Notre Dame to be pure. But shrines are never pure—and Notre Dame is an American Catholic shrine.
How will Pope Leo navigate a growing hostility between the United States and the European continent?

The Networker

Jeffrey Epstein's elite pals treated the sexual abuse of hundreds of girls as a joke or a PR hiccup. The man may be dead, but the ethos of the Epstein network is ascendant in American public life.
Charles Murray’s ‘Taking Religion Seriously’ is not, ultimately, a serious exploration of Christian belief.
A prayer service outside a Newark DHS detention center was a reminder that, for Christians, every prison and every tyrant is a temporary thing.
For decades, U.S. sanctions have been crippling Venezuela—and the poor, not the politicians, have paid the greatest price.
“Crows, / shiny as split anthracite, tear bits off the sun, suck stars / down to the pulse, spit them out.”