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In choosing the name Leo XIV, our new Holy Father has set himself an urgent task: to diagnose the ills of our age and offer wisdom, as Pope Leo...

Rhetorical restraint is not prominent in Washington these days. Given the volatile personalities involved and the escalatory effects of social media, one hesitates to declare that the apogee of...

Who are you?” That’s the opening line of Severance, one of the most successful shows in recent history. It’s also the question all humans start asking themselves as soon...

The Vatican announced May 19 that Baldassare Cardinal Reina would become the grand chancellor of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences. He succeeds...

Last autumn, I spent a few days at my family’s coastal country house in northwestern Spain. The vast stretches of farmland were overflowing with corn and fruit orchards. Here,...

Higher education is much in the news, assailed by the right and the left (for different reasons, of course), and held in low regard by the general population. A few...

Pope Francis began a Jubilee of Mercy in 2015, and now, in the aftermath of his death, “mercy” is the watchword in both the religious and secular reflections on...

The Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, was, according to British historian Andrew Roberts, “one of the largest terror attacks in history,” leaving 1182 dead and more...

In the annals of our military chaplaincy, many priests have distinguished themselves with high honor. But few lived and died as memorably as Fr. Lawrence Edward Lynch—a man so...

R. R. Reno A friend recommended Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq. The French writer published a number of novels in the mid-twentieth century that depict characters in...

Pope Leo XIV has explained that his choice of regnal name is an homage to Pope Leo XIII (1878–1903), the architect of the modern papacy. It was Leo who...

The Catholic Church in the United States has lost a great theologian with the recent death of David Tracy on April 29. The list of academic awards he received...

Within a few hours of the election of Pope Leo XIV and his masterful presentation of himself to the Church and the world from the central loggia of the...

Friedrich Merz, the new German chancellor, is the first head of government in the federal republic to be elected only in the second round of voting. The coalition of...

Yesterday was the feast day of the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich (circa 1342–after 1416). Although she was never formally canonized, Julian’s legacy as the author of Revelations of...