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Cathedral Thinking
Antoni Gaudí’s vision for the Sagrada Família is a prime example of the creativity Pope Leo praises in 'Magnifica humanitas.'
‘As an Emerald Is Green’
What does Christian love have to do with the austere, endless cool of a green crystal? More than you might first think.

The Ownerist Society

Accumulating wealth is now the way many people seek to belong—to "buy" their place in the world. But an extrinsic source of belonging will always be fragile.
Ian Marcus Corbin
From the Ground Up
In the first episode of our new limited podcast series, "The City and the Cross," host and inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson traces the origins and flowering of Black Catholic Detroit, from Jim Crow to the birth of the Black Catholic Movement.
The City and the Cross
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In this three-part narrative podcast series, inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson chronicles the rise, erosion, and defiant survival of Black Catholic Detroit. 
Coming Clean
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Why did Pope Leo apologize for the Church's role in slavery in an encyclical about artificial intelligence?
John T. McGreevy
The Pope, the President, and Our Democratic Crisis
Pope Leo XIVPoliticsHistory
With autocracy on the rise, Pope Leo has an opportunity to rearticulate the Church’s positive teaching on democracy.
Armed and Dangerous
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Pope Leo's call for disarmament leaves room for the possibility that AI can have good uses. But those uses can only be discovered by those who work for flourishing communities.
‘Simply Murder’
Donald TrumpInternationalPolitics
Donald Trump's killing spree at sea is indefensible on legal, ethical, and moral grounds.
A Proper Education
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In fiction and nonfiction by Black American Catholics, the parochial school looms large as a place of education, formation, and conversion—for good or ill.
Will the Encyclical Reach ‘People of Goodwill’?
Magnifica humanitasPope Leo XIVArtificial IntelligenceWomen in the Church
If the Church itself does not recognize the full humanity of half its own members, how can it expect Silicon Valley and heads of state to respect its sermon on human dignity?
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Leo's civilization of love
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Donald Trump

‘Simply Murder’
A Presidential Smash and Grab
Can Women Deliver a Blue Wave?
‘No to War!’

Immigration

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

Archive

Fulton Sheen: Is Religion Growing Up? (1929)
Alice Mayhew on the Literary Merton (1969)
Michael Harrington on the 'Other America' (1960)