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My Father's Game
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (387+ words) religious texts and traded baseball cards, felt at home in synagogue and at Shea Stadium. Most significantly,...
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…...
Smooth Sailing
7+ mon, 21+ hour ago (46+ words) Ephraim Radner is Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College. Create an account below to continue reading. Or, subscribe for full unlimited access Defend religious voices in the public square today. Consider a gift to America’s most influential publication…...
Mainlining Nostalgia
6+ mon, 20+ hour ago (74+ words) The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations Is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Usby ryan p. burgebrazos, 232 pages, $26.99 Brad East is associate professor of theology in the College of Biblical Studies at Abilene Christian University. Create an account below…...
Letters—June/July 2026
4+ mon, 20+ hour ago (456+ words) We welcome letters to the editor. Letters appear two issues after the article to which they are responding. Letters under three hundred words are preferred, and they may be edited for length and clarity. Letters responding to articles published in…...
The Long Work of Restoration
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (107+ words) What Really Matters:Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Familyby timothy goegleinwith craig ostenfidelis publishing, 264 pages, $28 Only a similar multitude of small corrections will get our culture back on track. Gerard V. Bradley is professor of law emeritus at Notre…...
The Peace We Can Make
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…...
Love in the Time of Mass Migration
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…...
The Spiritual Windfall of AI
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (298+ words) The twentieth century was not particularly kind to blue-collar workers—or God. The Industrial Revolution and the stock we place in science devalued both the manual laborer and his old-fashioned belief in God. With the damage largely done—religious attendance…...
Icarus Descending
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (80+ words) Image by Sipa USA via AP Aaron Kheriaty is director of the Bioethics, Technology, and Human Flourishing Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Contrary to online chatter, we are not in a “Catholic moment.” But we may already…...