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Last week, two signs of our times passed across my desk. First, a colleague drew my attention to the forthcoming volume A Queer Lectionary: (Im)proper Readings from the Margins—Year...

In March, a team of archaeologists excavating beneath Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher announced a new finding: ancient pollen and other botanical evidence indicating a garden had been...

Last year, the Association of American Medical Colleges warned that the United States will face a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036, including a shortage of between...

Last Christmas, I borrowed a thought from the English spiritual writer Caryll Houselander and suggested in this space that the wood of the manger anticipates the wood of the Cross: that...

Congressional proxy voting is a terrible idea. It is patently unconstitutional. It is as slippery a slope toward corruption and abuse of power as can be imagined. And even...

My wife, an immigration attorney here in Texas, held a well-attended “know your rights” session for immigrants last night. But not a soul who was at risk of deportation came...

I love dinner parties. I love attending them, and I love throwing them even more. When I was a child, my parents had lively dinners every week—sometimes raucous, always...

I first discovered Mother St. Paul in the 1990s. A parish friend was handing out photocopies of her slim Simple Meditations after Mass with the same fervor as a...

My first experience of Passover came the spring after our wedding. My wife is Jewish, and she signed us up for the Yale Hillel Seder, a large affair of...

François Mitterrand, who is now remembered as the greatest, or at least the savviest, left-wing statesman of contemporary France, and who reigned over the country for fourteen years, was...

Every now and then I’m invited to an early-eighteenth-century castle in the German countryside, with high baroque ceilings and a moat. The estate was previously home to a medieval...

There’s no doubt that the so-called “woke” march toward cultural domination suffered a setback after the 2024 presidential election. But any suggestion of a major vibe shift may be...

After defining, within strict limits, the infallibility of papal teaching on faith and morals, the First Vatican Council intended to take up the parallel question of the authority of...

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned one of the most odious legal regimes ever foisted on the U.S. American people: that of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey....

Virginia Aabram I’m reading two books this Lent, the first of which is a reminder of what is real, and the second a reminder of what is not. The...