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Art by David Sankey

The Future of Christian Democracy

A symposium
The Editors
November 26, 2025
Religion
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Economy
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The Future of Christian Democracy

Sohrab Ahmari calls for a renewal of the Christian-democratic tradition for our perilous political moment.
By The Editors
November 25, 2025
Religion
Politics
Economy
Artificial Intelligence
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Escaping the ‘Torment Nexus’

The fate of the twenty-first century turns on whether we appreciate the logic of Christian democracy and of the social teaching that inspired it.
By Sohrab Ahmari
November 30, 2025
Religion
Politics
Economy
Labor
Article

The Primacy of Politics

Human empathy, compassion, and justice can survive sin—and they make a politics of compromise and constructive conflict possible.
By Lisa Sowle Cahill
November 25, 2025
Religion
Politics
Social Justice
Article

Where We Must Begin

If conservative and progressive Catholics are to succeed in reasserting Catholic social teaching, they need to confront neoliberalism’s presence within their own institutions. 
By Joseph A. McCartin
December 6, 2025
Politics
Labor
U.S. Catholicism
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From Leo XIII to the Wagner Act

Catholic social teaching affirms the classical assertion that it is the essence of law to seek the common good.
By Patrick McKinley Brennan
November 24, 2025
Religion
U.S. Catholicism
Politics
Labor
Article

A Faustian Bargain

AI poses grave risks not only to human well-being and human labor but to humanity itself.
By John J. DiIulio Jr.
December 15, 2025
Technology
Labor
U.S. Catholicism

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