4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (131+ words) Much of the subsequent commentary on his fall has focused on whether his theological positions left him vulnerable to such an outcome. But there is a broader question here that all Christians in America need to ask: Is the real…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (274+ words) Repetition, it’s said, can be the mother of learning. So, in light of recent Catholic debates about the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and elsewhere, permit me to reprise, with slight adjustments, parts of a column from twenty-four…...

8+ mon, 3+ day ago   (143+ words) We’ve lost touch with reality. Technology is certainly a factor. A few years ago, people on airplanes began pulling down the window shades. The world outside, alive with light, interferes with the screens that have become the focus of our…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (293+ words) First Things The 39th Annual Erasmus Lecture: Only the Old Testament Can Restore America Union League Club, 38 E 37th Street, New York, NY 10016 First Things invites you to join us for the thirty-ninth annual Erasmus Lecture, “Only the Old Testament Can Restore…...

7+ mon, 20+ hour ago   (370+ words) The following is an exchange between David Novak and Glenn Loury regarding Loury’s article “Tucker and the Right,” which appeared in the January 2026 print issue. In his Summa Theologiae, Aquinas distinguishes between four types of law (three of which are…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (308+ words) I was all the more disappointed, therefore, to discover that the report lacked basic historical grounding. The document’s main section, its “Detailed Synthesis of the Themes Emerging from the Synodal Deepening,” opens with the words, “The entry of women into…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (862+ words) The unknown traveler shows up storm-tossed, naked, and hungry. He is bathed and clothed, the best wine skins are brought, a meal is laid. Beautifully depicted in Homer, hospitality is a kind of grace—a good bestowed on another outside…...