As a family, we are beholden to those who came before us, entwined together for common weal and woe.

In New York, rent seems to go up much faster than new apartment buildings. A look at the city’s history can help us understand why.

The question at the center of 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' is what generosity looks like—and whether one needs material possessions in order to be truly generous.

For Elias Canetti, death was nothing short of a cosmic scandal, the ultimate humiliation, absurdity itself.

I’ll be binge-reading Jane Austen again this winter, in honor of her 250th birthday. Few novelists of any era offer as much perception, delight, and insight on every page.

AI poses grave risks not only to human well-being and human labor but to humanity itself.

Jenny Saville’s figurative paintings, with their larger-than-life depictions of human bodies, disturb our expectations.

The sacred and the secular are, in fact, always intertwined, especially in the performance of sacred music.

Conservatives embrace Christopher Lasch’s critique of the elites. But they neglect his equally searing indictment of capitalism and consumerism.

'Marce Catlett' seeks to reclaim an enduring notion of prosperity through a fictionalized account of real Berry family history—and real American history.

Byung-Chul Han’s philosophy bridges the twentieth-century Catholic Worker worldview and the contemporary world.

Thomas Pynchon's ninth, and perhaps final, novel is haunted by mystery, meaning, and the undead.

Amy Coney Barrett’s recent book ignores our national peril in favor of schooling readers on court and Constitution.

The USCCB released a statement in support of immigrants—but its failure to mention Trump and ICE undermines its welcome message.

In Rome, Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III met not so much to restore a tradition as to inaugurate a new one.

The example of John Henry Newman—the newest Doctor of the Church—can be a balm for our beleaguered and battle-worn digital age.