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Article Entertaining Angels When we open our hearts, homes, and even minivans in Christian hospitality, God assures us that we will entertain angels. By Marie Marquardt August 11, 2025 Immigration Social Justice Politics Religion The Last Word
Article Must We Always Forgive? The Gospel requires us to love every neighbor. But does that really mean we are forbidden to resent unrepentant wrongdoers? By Stephen J. Pope August 8, 2025 Religion Politics Pope Francis Ukraine
Article Tumult and Sympathy To think of the late physician Oliver Sacks is to think of the people he wrote about, who made the world a bit larger and much more interesting. By William M. Chace August 7, 2025 Books Nonfiction
Article Settings-Out In 'Homework,' Geoff Dyer writes ironically but lovingly about boyhood, class, and literature. By Paul J. Griffiths August 6, 2025 Culture Books Nonfiction
The Counterweight: Against White Christian Nationalism On this episode, Fr. Bryan Massingale argues that the ideology of white Christian nationalism undergirds and explains many of the most egregious policies and actions of the second Trump administration. U.S. Catholicism
Article Black Hole above Gaza "We have a problem with the sky over Gaza. There’s a hole in it, about the size of a fist now, black and getting bigger." By Elina Kumra August 5, 2025 War and Peace Fiction
Article Errors of Omission Paul Moses reports on a significant hole in a House Judiciary Committee report accusing the Biden FBI of targeting an SSPX priest. By Paul Moses August 5, 2025 Religion Politics
Article Catholicism as Content Our online practices are reshaping what it means to be a human. How does this affect the way the Church spreads the Gospel? By Nathan Dufour Oglesby August 4, 2025 Religion Technology
