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Bernd Roeck traces the roots of the Renaissance as far back as the sixth millennium BCE. His long view of history explores the “why” of Western culture’s success.

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If their latest meeting is any indication, U.S. bishops may be letting synodality fade—even on issues as important as the abuse crisis.

The work of French Jesuit Michel de Certeau attempted to discern what lay beyond and beneath the glamor of postwar materialism.

Allowing lay preaching in the pulpit during Sunday liturgy would model that the Church is serious about synodality.

When Greg Grandin reduces Gustavo Gutiérrez and Pope Benedict XVI to political figures, he neglects what's most important about their work.

Russia’s war in Ukraine may go down in history as the beginning of a new era of industrial warfare—with AI-powered drones at the center.

We are a people constantly at war and yet rarely in the crosshairs, using technology to offload the moral weight of our violent conflicts.