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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?

Ash Wednesday Asks Nothing

“Ash Wednesday made no assumptions. It offered no promise that anything would get better. It spoke directly to the condition I recognized most readily.”
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.”