Alzheimer’s causes great suffering for both those it afflicts and the people who love them—but our responses to it can provide a humanizing perspective.
Human anthropology and sexual ethics are subject to change. But the knowledge that we were created in the divine image to love and be loved is eternal.
Pilgrimage sites can be like trusted family elders: we need to visit them, respect them, and thank them for the ways they help us throughout our lives.
Sohrab Ahmari’s latest book attempts to answer fundamental questions. But his foggy appeal to tradition misunderstands its purpose and potential in our lives.
The German synod expresses a different Catholic culture, one rooted in Vatican II, but without the qualms about the compatibility between modernity and faith.
“To step outside my safe, warm car for just a minute each time I wanted to take a picture sucked all the air out of my lungs. It was exhilarating and terrifying.”
Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel hones in on a religious community fifty years in the past, one that successfully conveys the emotional tenor of social media today.
