Eight years ago, Andrew Willard Jones’s Before Church and State was described in these pages as “the…

Within a few hours of the election of Pope Leo XIV and his masterful presentation of himself…

Friedrich Merz, the new German chancellor, is the first head of government in the federal republic to…

Yesterday was the feast day of the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich (circa 1342–after 1416). Although she…

Come può un evangelico—non unito alla Chiesa di Roma ma credente che esista un’unica chiesa, santa, cattolica,…

We are still in the early days of the pontificate of Leo XIV. No one who prognosticates…

My father used to quiz us at the kitchen table, my older brother and me, during dinner.…

A few weeks ago, I went to an Easter concert put on by a new nonprofit called…

One of the numerous pathologies infecting today’s communications ecosystem is Instant Analysis Syndrome, which has been raging…

Blackberry vines,  you hold this ground in the shade of a willow: all thorns, no fruit. *…

They rise above us, arching, spreading, thin Where trunk and bough give way to veining twig. We…

Here in Hollywood, the big story of the Easter season has been the outsized success of Angel…

About eighteen months ago, I decided I wanted a healthier relationship with my smartphone. My phone had…

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Daniel J. Mahoney joins…

A shadow cast by something invisible  falls on the white cover of a book  lying on my…