At the beginning of his 2020 encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis speaks of “an episode in the life of St. Francis ...
In mid-September, I joined a lunch with the leaders of a village in Syunik, southern Armenia. The president of neighboring Azerbaijan has been threatening for several years to “return” this region to ...
The editors discuss the NatCon in Jerusalem, the scandal at Cornell University and its broader implications, and whether AI could ever be considered to be conscious. War abroad. Socialists on the rise ...
We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it.” So William Hazlitt, in ...
It used to be that if you died horribly and honorably and happened to be a person of note, your legacy was secure. Amelia Earhart, John F. Kennedy, and Kurt Cobain were served well by their untimely ...
In his weekly catecheses on Vatican II, Pope Leo is now discussing Gaudium et Spes, one of the more controversial conciliar documents. Critics charged that, by revising its earlier condemnations of ...
The mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier cries into the crucified Christ depicted on her son’s burial shroud. It echoes the icons here at St. Mikhail Church, a short walk from central Kyiv. As the ...
Route 132 along the north shore of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula offers one of the most scenic vistas in North America. To one’s left, the extraordinary St. Lawrence River can create the illusion of ...
It has not been a happy few weeks for the Church of England. First, St. Paul’s Cathedral announced that it had struck a deal to let a London nightclub use Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece as a venue ...
The editors discuss the AfD’s continued victories in Germany, the death of the assisted dying bill in the U.K., and calls to “pace the frontier” in AI research. War abroad. Socialists on the rise. AI ...
Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s “foreign minister” (Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, to use the official title), visited Moscow from August 24–28, meeting ...
The now-ubiquitous terms “reproductive health” and “reproductive freedom” have contributed mightily to a slaughter of the innocents in these United States. The death toll from that massacre is now ...
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