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Overlooked Treasure

Obsolescence may be the source of Millennial religious rejection. But it is also the key to understanding Millennial religious embrace.

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

June 17, 2025

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U.S. Catholicism

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An Alternative Narrative?

Many young Americans no longer seem to want the things religion once promised. Has this rendered religion "obsolete"?

By Peter Steinfels

June 14, 2025

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Secularism and Modernity

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The Hideous Deaths Obscured by Ideology

John Connelly’s essay, if taken seriously, is a charter for limitless violence. To support Ukraine, we must embrace a different script.

By Paul J. Griffiths

June 11, 2025

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Crypto-Religiosity

What if American religiosity hasn’t disappeared, but just taken less visible forms?

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The Fire Hasn't Gone Out

For the Church to welcome and nourish its people, God needs to run the show.

By Timothy P. Schilling

June 6, 2025

Religion

Spirituality

The Last Word

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‘If One Part Suffers’

Close to one in five American Catholics is vulnerable to President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” regime. Paul Moses reports on how this monstrous policy will wound the U.S. Church.

By Paul Moses

June 5, 2025

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Immigration

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‘Nice Boy Up from the Parishes’

Chicago Catholicism is distinctive and one of its own is now the pope. What might Robert Prevost's South Side upbringing teach us about the man who would become Leo XIV?

By Margaret O’Brien Steinfels

June 4, 2025

Pope Leo XIV

Religion

U.S. Catholicism

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Seeing Double

For "the other Naomi," explains Naomi Klein, algorithmic spiral and the global pandemic fueled an unnerving descent into conspiracy.

By Adam Fleming Petty

June 3, 2025

Books

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Ask Better Questions

People have never stopped seeking God, transcendence, spirit, or community. They’re just not finding any of those things in church.

By Kaya Oakes

June 2, 2025

Religion

Culture

U.S. Catholicism

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‘The Living Vein of Compassion’

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso reflects on the Church's prophetic role during an era of anti-immigrant scapegoating.

By Bishop Mark J. Seitz

June 1, 2025

Immigration

Politics

U.S. Catholicism

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