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Putting “O Holy Night” on the program at Christmas Masses in Chicago this year may prove a little awkward. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich’s recent message to his diocese, entitled...

America is missing children because it’s missing marriages. However, fixing our fertility gap won’t happen by pressuring or humiliating singles. It requires fixing the broken dating cultures that are...

Father Justin was rightly defrocked within two days of his public debut. “Father Justin” was the name given to the AI-powered chatbot recently launched by Catholic Answers as an...

Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be by timothy p. carney harper, 368 pages, $29.99 The Anxious Generation: How the Great...

In traditional marriage vows, husband and wife promise to care for each other “in sickness and in health, till death do us part.” But when one or both of...

You don’t want me to cut your toast with a little heart cookie cutter, do you?” I ask. As expected, my husband declines. It’s a little strange to plan...

ChatGPT has schools playing defense. This artificial-intelligence language bot was developed by OpenAI (“GPT” stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer”). Microsoft, Google, and other Big Tech companies are developing their...

This review contains spoilers for The Rings of Power. When my brother was young, my mother read The Lord of the Rings aloud to him. He loved the tale...

American Shtetl:The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New Yorkby nomi m. stolzenberg and david n. myersprinceton, 496 pages, $35 The sign at the border of...

Encanto, the newest Disney animated musical, was released as Omicron spiked and many families hunkered down for a quiet, isolated Christmas. The magical Madrigal family at the heart of...

Superheroes are aspirational figures. They’re faster and stronger than the rest of us, and although their powers put them beyond certain limits (like gravity), they’re firmly bound by a...

I haven’t listened to “WAP,” the obscene song with the unprintable full title that’s topping the summer charts, and I don’t plan to. I take warnings about bad art...

For some time, whenever I recommended Kristin Lavransdatter to friends I kept forgetting about the plague. I first read Sigrid Undset’s novel—a three-volume story of one woman’s life in...

An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist byrichard dawkins ecco, 320 pages, $27.99    Richard Dawkins’ An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of aScientist invites comparisons with...