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Longing for the Crusades
Boomer Christianity may be dying, but the prospect of its being replaced by the old Crusader Christianity is dead on arrival.
The Wrong Prayer
The Church’s leaders cannot assume that Catholics are familiar with 'Nostra aetate,' or that they are all aware of the Church’s long history of anti-Judaism.

Christian Radical

Over the course of his life, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus surrendered grassroots political organizing for the company of the powerful.
Arvin Alaigh
Love Songs
How not to despair in troubling times like these? Live, take notes, and compose poems of love.
Rebuilding After Trump
Donald TrumpPope Leo XIV
In the wake of Trumpian destruction, Pope Leo's encyclical offers a model for rebuilding and repair.
Night Walking
PoetryReligionSpiritualityBooks
Darkness is home to both the nihilist and the mystic. The poet and philosopher Kevin Hart moves openly in both of those directions.
The Bishops vs. the Nativists
ImmigrationPoliticsReligionBishopsDonald TrumpEditorial
The USCCB has largely risen to the occasion in condemning MAGA nativism. We hope voters will remove it from power with all due haste.
The Catholic Century
Pope Leo XIVInternationalPoliticsDonald Trump
The Catholic Church is now the default option for those seeking a Christianity capable of guiding a different kind of politics.
Vatican Diplomacy & Vance’s End Times
Pope Leo XIVDonald TrumpVaticanReligionTheology
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.
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Literature Is Not About You
Can Catholic Voters Tip the Midterms?
Vatican Diplomacy & Vance’s End Times
Clerics Without Clericalism
We Are Double
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Pulling the Brake
HistoryEconomyPoverty
Two recent histories of capitalism show its rapacious, violent appetite. How might Catholics contribute to a politics of repair?
Eugene McCarraher
There Is Power in the Blood
NonfictionTheologyHistory
Jonathan Sheehan's history of sacrifice explores how people's beliefs about sacrifice in the past have been reappropriated today.
Michael Hollerich
The Errant Pilgrim
Health CarePriesthood
The radical priest Ivan Illich spotted disturbing trends in medicine that most doctors continue to overlook.
Ronald W. Dworkin

Immigration

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

Pope Leo XIV

Clerics Without Clericalism
The Catholic Century
Rebuilding After Trump
A False Serenity

Spirituality

Night Walking
A Memoir of Alcoholism and Attention
A 3:00 a.m. Meditation
Massimiliano Camaiti’s ‘Agnus Dei’

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G. K. Chesterton on the Poetry of St. Thomas (1933)
Reinhold Niebuhr on Catholicism & Democracy (1953)
Grant Gallicho on How 9/11 Felt (2001)