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Article Trump's Man at the Vatican CatholicVote relentlessly pushes the MAGA agenda. No wonder Trump made its cofounder ambassador to the Holy See. By Dominic Preziosi August 21, 2025 Donald Trump Vatican Media
Article A Certain Power Tragically, James Baldwin’s most incisive and most beautiful writing was fueled not by love but by lovelessness. By Vincent Lloyd August 19, 2025 Politics Culture Books Race
Article Big Tech’s Persecution Complex Again and again, AI's backers demonstrate a basic contempt for human intelligence and agency. By Alexander Stern August 18, 2025 Religion Politics Culture Technology Donald Trump
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Article Trump & the Grand Theater of the World Trump has shown us—painfully, unmistakably—that politics can become a total work of art. By Antonio Spadaro August 14, 2025 Religion Politics Donald Trump
Article Vatican II at Napa The new debate over Vatican II in the United States is unfolding before our very eyes—but in ways that can be hard to see. By Massimo Faggioli August 13, 2025 Religion Politics Donald Trump
Article Caveat Crypto Does crypto have the potential to lift the economy to new heights? Or is it a mass delusion destined for a crash? By Peter Quinn August 12, 2025 Politics Economy Donald Trump
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
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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
