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Students for Notre Dame
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (279+ words) appointment of Susan Ostermann, one can see why. The school’s institutional identity seems to be a perennial...
How to Bring Back School Prayer
6+ mon, 20+ hour ago (572+ words) the constitutional corpus supports Engel’s ban on school prayer. One might object here by reviving the presumption,...pressure in a classroom to participate in “voluntary” school prayer that the provision of an optout is illusory....
The Community Answering the College Faith-Abandonment Crisis
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (316+ words) After learning about the Oaks Retreat during her Auburn tour, Caitlyn Holmes decided to attend the Arch Retreat as a freshman at the University of Georgia. During her sophomore year, she signed up to be a counselor and saw the…...
Letters—June/July 2026
4+ mon, 20+ hour ago (456+ words) look, however briefly, beyond the curriculum of a high school English class. I have been trying to perform the...
Holding Things Together
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (101+ words) Everything is beautiful, from the smallest artifact to the greatest. But only God sees this. Our job is simply to hold things together, for the Perecs of the world and for us, until he makes it clear. Ephraim Radner is…...
The Parasocial Generation
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (236+ words) The answer to parasocial belonging is not reaction but reorientation—a deliberate recovery of the conditions that make genuine relationships possible. In other words, we need to touch the Church. The Church can’t merely be a venue for loose participation....
Frequenting the Frontlines of Life
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (377+ words) It was a brisk early morning when I set off from the John Jay Institute last Friday to attend the March for Life in Washington, D.C. Having just spent the last year closely following the daily politics of the capital, I…...
God and Man at MIT
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (198+ words) When I arrived at MIT, I was among the indifferent passersby. After three years here, I’m not so sure. But I’ve seen new sensibilities quietly assert themselves on campus. I, and other students, have come to regard the old intellectual…...
My Father's Game
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (387+ words) Judaism and baseball were my father’s long before they became mine. Few things seem less intuitive than relating my father’s prayer shawl and his baseball mitt. Like many Orthodox Jewish children of New York City, I was raised on religion…...
Unlearned Lessons of 9/11, a Quarter-Century Later
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (123+ words) Here is what I replied, as recounted in Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II: How does that analysis stand up, twenty-five years later? George Weigel’s column “The Catholic Difference” is syndicated by the Denver Catholic, the…...