William F. Buckley's critique of Pope John XXIII was one of the most daring episodes in the conservative eminence's career. He later wished it never had happened.
Close to one in five American Catholics is vulnerable to President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” regime. Paul Moses reports on how this monstrous policy will wound the U.S. Church.
Insofar as Catholic neglect of the plight of the Palestinians stems from guilt about the Holocaust, it’s long past time to rethink how this guilt is addressed.
Sarah Wynn-Williams’s memoir is a horrifying exposé of misbehavior at Facebook. But she never fully explains why she joined such a ruthless company in the first place.
Pope Leo XIV’s choice of papal name is profoundly significant. What might the new pontiff have to say about the social and technological challenges facing us in the 2020s?
The complex, sometimes romanticized, but ultimately prophetic Catholic peace movement has critical lessons to teach today's America amid a genocidal war in Gaza.
Canada needs a prime minister capable of taking on the megalomaniac leading its once reliable and friendly neighbor to the south. Is Mark Carney the man for the moment?
As federal funding for scientific research declines, the shift to the private sector may spark innovation—but it also risks basic research slipping into the world of industrial secrets.
Donald Trump’s authoritarian assault on the country has drawn different responses from Democrats. For his part, Bernie Sanders has taken to the road on his "Fighting Oligarchy Tour."
For novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, the ambition to associate oneself with the universality that France symbolized was not in tension with the desire to tell the story of Latin America.
The risk of nuclear war is higher now than it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Catholic principles of just peace can move us back from the brink.
In Burma and Thailand, humble faith-based organizations respond to a humanitarian crisis borne of civil war, a devastating earthquake, and Trump's foreign-assistance cuts.
Lent is a season of reflection—but also a season to prepare for the work ahead, to sweep aside everything that has not worked and find new ways through the desert.
Trump and Vance display a profound failure to understand the hidden strengths of democracies—and the weaknesses of the authoritarian regimes they hope to emulate.
Far outside the political spotlight on elite universities, community-college students across America are learning the skills of democratic participation.
As Republican elected officials dodge their own voters, some Democrats are trying to fill the gap—but they'll need a lot more than “People's Town Halls” to win back trust.
Lee Zeldin’s agenda at the EPA matches the Trump administration’s broader approach: kneecap the government, and then complain that it doesn’t run well.
