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"Every now and then, / I know what the psalmist meant / fall into a hole in myself"

The Earth Liberation Front thought it could inspire an eco-revolution without the hard work of organizing. What can its failures teach us today?

Jonathan Sheehan's history of sacrifice explores how people's beliefs about sacrifice in the past have been reappropriated today.

The Catholic Church is now the default option for those seeking a Christianity capable of guiding a different kind of politics.

In the wake of Trumpian destruction, Pope Leo's encyclical offers a model for rebuilding and repair.

Summoning more willpower couldn't keep Meghan O'Gieblyn sober. But perhaps the pursuit of beauty, inspired by Irish Murdoch and Simone Weil, could.

Two recent histories of capitalism show its rapacious, violent appetite. How might Catholics contribute to a politics of repair?

Stanford alumnus Theo Baker's book charts the university's depressing slide into a glorified tech-industry career fair.

Patrick Deneen's 'American Odyssey' reads Homer instrumentally, transforming a rich epic into a neat model for social conservatism.

The USCCB has largely risen to the occasion in condemning MAGA nativism. We hope voters will remove it from power with all due haste.

"I wanted to give / Every flower your name; / But they already had it."

Annie Dillard reminds us that the imagination, properly wed to reason, can be transfigurative and redeeming.

Lawrence Joseph's poetry gives form to a beauty that is still somehow possible in our precise and horrible moment.

J. D. Vance seems not to understand that, for Christians, the expectation of the end only deepens our obligations to the vulnerable.

How will the Vatican engage with an American political theology that unfolds under the sign of the apocalypse?