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Clerics Without Clericalism
The more we see laypeople living out the universal call to holiness, the more clearly we understand the specific role of priests.
Night Walking
Darkness is home to both the nihilist and the mystic. The poet and philosopher Kevin Hart moves openly in both of those directions.
Love Songs
How not to despair in troubling times like these? Live, take notes, and compose poems of love.
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.
A Holy Handover
Latin AmericaReligious LifeArts
A Eucharistic celebration in Puebla displays a community's devotion and the central role of lay leaders in Mexican Catholicism.
A Pilgrim Among Pilgrims
Pope Leo XIVTheologyHistoryReligion
By participating in the rituals of a Lourdes pilgrimage, Pope Leo will join in a broader search for healing and peace.
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Long Dead, Long Resurrected
TheologyHistoryCulture
In every defiled rectory and every Catholic turned away by scorning catechists, God has died.
Anthony Amado
King Joe
SportsBooksCulture
Sometimes described as a “Black Moses,” boxer Joe Louis was a lodestar for his African American brothers and sisters.
Gordon Marino
Literature Is Not About You
BooksFiction
Reading great novels should be an encounter that makes you more human, not more productive.
Drew Calvert

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 3:00 a.m. Meditation
Massimiliano Camaiti’s ‘Agnus Dei’
'No, But I Skimmed It'

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