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In March, a team of archaeologists excavating beneath Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher announced a new finding: ancient pollen and other botanical evidence indicating a garden had been...

On December 4, twenty-six-year-old Luigi Mangione allegedly fired a fatal shot into the back of Brian Thompson, CEO of the health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, as Thompson was exiting a...

In early March, the organizing committee for the upcoming Paris Olympics released its official promotional poster, featuring familiar Parisian landmarks—the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Dôme des...

During the late summer and early fall of 2017, Rachel ­Fulton Brown, a fifty-two-year-old associate professor of medieval history at the University of Chicago, found herself a pariah among...

The movie Unplanned, which tells the story of former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson’s conversion to the pro-life cause, has been a surprise niche hit. It has already...

The March death of eighty-five-year-old Cardinal Godfried Danneels, the famously liberal Catholic archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and primate of Belgium from 1979 to 2010, has met with little comment from...

The year 2018 marked the sixteen-hundredth anniversary of the excommunication of one of Christianity’s most famous heretics: the fifth-century monk Pelagius, who gave his name to “Pelagianism,” the set...

On February 20, California Democratic State Senator Jerry Hill, whose affluent, liberal-leaning district encompasses the San Francisco Peninsula and portions of Silicon Valley, introduced a bill to abolish legal...

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who is openly lesbian, has been ousted from the board of Athlete Ally, a nonprofit that promotes LGBT inclusion in sports. Navratilova published an op-ed...

Duke University, which prides itself on being an elite and cosmopolitan institution of higher learning, has suddenly reminded the world—and probably many of its own astonished students—that it has...

There was plenty to get angry about in the disgraceful behavior of media figures and celebrities in the Covington Catholic incident. A carefully edited video clip that went viral...

For nine years Democratic officials have attempted to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to provide free-of-charge abortion-inducing contraceptives to their employees under Obamacare. You might have thought...

On November 15 the Italian Bishops’ Conference announced that it plans to change the wording of the Lord’s Prayer in the Mass liturgy. The bishops want the current Italian...

Pope Francis’s famous 2013 exhortation at a World Youth Day gathering in Rio de Janeiro,“¡Hagan lío!” (“Make some noise!”), has become a signature symbol of his papacy, to the...

I went to see Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer because I thought I ought to. I hadn’t read any reviews of the movie—there are hardly any—so...