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An Evangelical in Italy
How does an evangelical—not joined with the Church in Rome, but committed to one holy, catholic, and apostolic church—live and worship...
The Vatican’s Duty to Armenian Christians
Last month, in one of the first liturgical acts of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV formally took possession of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, one of...
A Time of Revival
The winds of Christian renewal are gathering strength. The Bible Society in Great Britain recently conducted a longitudinal study of Christian practice in England and Wales. The results are...
The Comic Trinity of Nicaea
The year 2025 marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, convened by Emperor Constantine I to resolve the Arian controversy. The Creed hammered out in the fourth...
Why Twain Endures
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Sam Clemens (not yet “Mark Twain”) didn’t know where to stand. He was twenty-five years old, a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River—a job he’d...
L.A. and Elon
The editors discuss the immigration riots in Los Angeles, and Donald Trump’s feud with Gavin Newsom. Then they discuss that other feud. Rusty Reno joins Julia Yost. The conversation...
Glenn Greenwald Is Not a Victim
In a scene from the 1961 British neo-noir film Victim, four gay men are having a conversation about private morality and public norms. All of them are being extorted...
Zoning Out
In an era in which the American dream slips ever further from the grasp of the common man, these two books seek the causes. What are the roots, both authors ask, of the...
Yes, It’s Our War, Too
In late May, Trump administration officials at the highest level, frustrated by what they regard as Vladimir Putin’s incomprehensible obstreperousness over his war on Ukraine, suggested that their patience...
Catholic Ireland’s Dead and Gone
One hundred years ago today, W. B. Yeats, poet, senator of the Irish Free State, and proud member of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy, rose to his feet on the...
The Problem with N. T. Wright’s Abortion Remarks
Anglican theologian and former bishop of Durham N. T. Wright has landed himself in hot water following remarks that abortion is acceptable in “some circumstances,” such as rape, incest,...
Saving Christian Europe
Christianity made Europe,” Georges Bernanos writes in The Great Cemeteries Under the Moon. “Christianity is dead. Europe is going to die. What could be simpler?” Nearly a century on,...
To My Uncle Screwtape: Concerning the Enemy’s Schools
We publish here, unedited, an intercepted letter from the novice devil Wormwood to his mentor Screwtape. My dear Uncle Screwtape, It is with considerable excitement—and no small measure of...
How Obergefell Failed
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, announcing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. The opinion, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy,...
The Supreme Court Corrects Wisconsin on Religious Freedom
On June 5, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission. The Court heard a challenge to...
