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Humanity on the Page
What is the future for literature in a world where machines churn out plausible facsimiles of our most artful human narratives?
Rand Richards Cooper
Songs of Himself
In the letters of John Updike, very little self-reflection goes on and absolution reigns.
Anthony Giardina
Reclaiming Attention
On this episode, Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett shares how we can take back our minds from the depredations of Big Tech.
Slouching Toward Beirut
War and PeaceReligionPoliticsDonald Trump
It’s too soon to determine whether the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will last. In the meantime, the Lebanese have their dead to bury.
Joseph Phillip Amar
Should Leo visit the United States?
Pope Leo XIVDonald TrumpWar and Peace
For Pope Leo to visit the United States under present circumstances would be far more scandalous than his simply staying away.
Mollie Wilson O’Reilly
Tennyson’s Honest Doubt
BooksSecularism and ModernityPoetry
Alfred Tennyson’s faith was shaken as scientific discoveries redefined his world. But a crisis of faith isn’t always a conquest of it.
Todd Shy
After the Chavez revelations
GenderLaborPoliticsCultureRace
The farmworkers’ movement was never meant to be about one man, but the people. After the Cesar Chavez revelations, that must remain our ideal.
Claudia Avila Cosnahan
Get Conversion Therapy Out of the Church
LGBTQ issuesSupreme CourtReligionBishops
Conversion therapy is psychologically unhealthy and spiritually hazardous. Catholic bishops and organizations must stop supporting it.
Heidi Schlumpf
The Rise of the Catholic Chatbot
TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceReligion
I’ve recently been experimenting with the Catholic AI chatbot Truthly. The experience of interacting with it is not unlike talking to some priests.
Nathan Dufour Oglesby
More than a Real Estate Deal
TechnologySpiritualityReligious LifePolitics
In 2016, I became a Trappist novice at St. Benedict's Monastery. Now, this place of peace is being purchased by a zealot for war: Palantir CEO Alex Karp.
Evan Bednarz
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‘Cool’ Catholicism?
Massimo Faggioli
Songs of Himself
Anthony Giardina
Wittgenstein’s Apocalypse
Alexander Stern
In Praise of a Political Church
Heidi Schlumpf
Caesar’s Time and Wonder
Antonio Spadaro
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Vatican

The Vatican's Warning on AI
Trump, Mussolini, and the Silence of the Church
Leo’s Transatlantic Task
Leo the Manager

Artificial Intelligence

Humanity on the Page
The Vatican's Warning on AI
The Rise of the Catholic Chatbot
Wittgenstein’s Apocalypse

Immigration

Community Organizing and the Resurrection
Prayer at an ICE Detention Center
Loving Judas in the Borderlands
Real Solidarity with the Detained

Archive

Michael and Kenneth Himes on the Sacrament of Creation (1990)
Eugene McCarthy on the Christian in Politics (1954)
Jacques Maritain on Just War (1939)