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All civilizations, like all individuals, have flaws. The Christian civilization of Church and empire had flaws. America, which began as a refuge from the religious wars of Europe, has...

Christianity made Europe,” Georges Bernanos writes in The Great Cemeteries Under the Moon. “Christianity is dead. Europe is going to die. What could be simpler?” Nearly a century on,...

Next year is America’s 250th anniversary, and President Trump has promised us a “spectacular birthday party.” The Semiquincentennial Commission is considering a number of grand plans: a “Great American...

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...

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...

More is read now in a year than was read before in a hundred years.” So declared Lectura Popular, a Catholic publication aimed at the working classes of Chile,...

When Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, the boys crowed and the girls cried. At least that’s what America’s elite media told us. Sixteen-year-old Naomi ­Beinart reported in...

I'm not sure how I got here, into these pages. Lately I’ve found myself in a lot of unfamiliar places: in conversation with Orthodox Christians, buying old Chesterton and Scruton books...

Several months ago, I came ­into possession of an extraordinary book—a hardcover copy of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and ­Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, by...

Artificial intelligence is an umbrella term covering ­many beliefs about the powers possessed by computers, both now and in the future. Because computers today perform many tasks formerly reserved...

As the People of God, the Church is the temple of the Holy Spirit, Christ’s very body (1 Cor. 12:27). Our Lord superintends our prayers, teaching, and leadership. He...

For Emily Ballou, it seemed like the perfect solution. She had always wanted to adopt a child someday—she had been an adoptee herself—but the complications and expenses of traditional...

My formal introduction to the costs of inquiry into sensitive matters began at 6:30 Eastern time on the morning of Sunday, June 10, 2012. Seven hours earlier, the publisher...

On October 29, 1945, Jean-Paul Sartre delivered his lecture “Existentialism Is a Humanism,” a declaration of independence for the postwar era. Its organizers at the Club Maintenant in Paris...

Your Excellency, I’m writing only because you asked. I have so far successfully avoided the role of elder statesman, and I suffer from a mild allergy to the genre...