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Come può un evangelico—non unito alla Chiesa di Roma ma credente che esista un’unica chiesa, santa, cattolica, e apostolica—vivere e andare in chiesa nell’Italia? Quasi diciannove anni fa, mia...

We are still in the early days of the pontificate of Leo XIV. No one who prognosticates now about the future of his papacy can know for certain what...

My father used to quiz us at the kitchen table, my older brother and me, during dinner. Geography and civics, science and religion, plus whatever general knowledge he thought...

A few weeks ago, I went to an Easter concert put on by a new nonprofit called Higher Word at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Little Italy. There had...

One of the numerous pathologies infecting today’s communications ecosystem is Instant Analysis Syndrome, which has been raging here in Rome, and indeed around the world, since Pope Leo XIV...

Blackberry vines,  you hold this ground in the shade of a willow: all thorns, no fruit. * Pitcher sage, your fuchsia flowers are crusted brown, trading tenderness for seed....

They rise above us, arching, spreading, thin Where trunk and bough give way to veining twig. We cannot find the place their lives begin, But know it spreads beneath...

Here in Hollywood, the big story of the Easter season has been the outsized success of Angel Studios’ The King of Kings. On a reported budget of $18.9 million, the...

About eighteen months ago, I decided I wanted a healthier relationship with my smartphone. My phone had become a fixture in every aspect of my life. I kept it...

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Daniel J. Mahoney joins in to discuss his recent book, The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The...

A shadow cast by something invisible  falls on the white cover of a book  lying on my table, untraceable shade twisting faintly upwards like smoke . . . but beyond the...

By common consensus, Jorge ­Mario Cardinal Bergoglio won the papacy by means of an intervention he made at one of the General Congregations preceding the conclave of 2013...

As I write, the Chair of St. Peter sits empty. It’s difficult to assess the significance of Francis’s pontificate. He championed a “pastoral” approach, which seemed to mean flexibility, invention...

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...

I ‘ve often been told that Jews don’t “do theology.” A quick glance at The Guide for the Perplexed by the great medieval Jewish thinker Maimonides puts paid to...