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The Rise of the Catholic Chatbot
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
Why Do We Persevere?
Praying the Sorrowful Mysteries this Lent has meant letting Mary guide me to the gates of an ICE detention facility.
Marie Marquardt
‘My First War’
Recently ordained Jesuit priest Fr. Doug Jones joins us from Beirut to speak about the growing humanitarian crisis in Lebanon.
Fight for the Fourteenth
ImmigrationBishopsDonald Trump
The bishops filed an amicus brief in support of birthright citizenship. Conservative critics aren’t happy.
Heidi Schlumpf
Curb Your Enthusiasm
BooksPhilosophy
A new biography of Arthur Schopenhauer reveals a more compassionate philosopher, whose ethics of solidarity is one we urgently need now.
Morten Høi Jensen
Real Solidarity
LentDonald TrumpImmigrationBishops
Becoming a faith community means allowing the faces of the displaced to enter our liturgies and our civic imagination.
Dylan Corbett
Bad for the Church, and the World
VaticanPope Leo XIVDonald TrumpReligion
Many U.S. bishops remain unwilling to call out Trump's authoritarianism. They would be wise to draw lessons from the Church's history with Italian Fascism.
Massimo Faggioli
An Ecumenical Pilgrimage
ReligionWomen in the ChurchEcumenism
Dame Mullally’s participation in the Becket Camino represents a sign of ecumenism as she becomes the first woman to lead the Church of England.
Vanessa R. Corcoran
The Gospel According to Tom Homan
U.S. CatholicismPoliticsImmigrationBishops
Trump-appointed border czar Tom Homan is a lifelong Catholic, but do his zero-tolerance immigration policies align with Church teaching?
Paul Moses
No Mirrors, Shared Shoes
HistoryEuropeCulture
The rural Ireland of my parents’ generation more closely resembled the Middle Ages than 21st-century Europe.
John Rodden
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Wittgenstein’s Apocalypse
Alexander Stern
Why Do We Suffer?
Dan Barry
Preaching the Seven Last Words
Rita Ferrone
Fight for the Fourteenth
Heidi Schlumpf
Why Do We Persevere?
Marie Marquardt
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