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Last year the United Nations Population Division predicted that global population will peak in approximately sixty years...

The Catholic Church never condemned the theory of evolution nor came close to doing so. One might have expected otherwise: Many of the factors that had led to the Galileo fiasco...

A year after I became a Catholic, when my teenaged son was thinking about college, we visited Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In the days and weeks following my...

In 2014, when Kevin Malone’s opera Mysterious 44 premiered in Manchester, England, the production featured narrative voiceovers by Richard Dawkins. It was a fitting choice. Funded in part by...

When in April of 2025 the Hastings Center for Bioethics (the oldest bioethics think tank in this country) revealed its new five-year strategic plan, one of six “values” specified...

The great essayist William Hazlitt observed that there is pleasure in hating. “Without something to hate,” he wrote, “we should lose the very spring of thought and action.” But...

You can learn everything you need to know about our collective state of mind from the fact that the most talked-about book of the year is titled If Anyone...

"Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not” (Jon. 3:9)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini had only just turned twenty when he finished his sculpture of ­Aeneas, the mythical founder of Rome, in his escape from the conquered city of Troy....

I have cancer,” the elderly woman ­announced from her hospital bed high above York Avenue in Manhattan. “But cancer is not the sickness. Cancer is the cure. Because cancer...

The Pride flag is progressive America’s banner. Before it was ­unfurled, most gays stayed in the closet. With the advent of Pride, they became out and proud. Over time,...

Oxblood, bifold, kept In a back bedroom Closet all these years, It dates to my time Of adolescence, And has the…

Many may not notice the young rabbit, caughtin the thicket of brush near the bottom left-hand corner, because there is so much to seein the center: an angel of...

The people I want most to like all do it. I listen to their talk of swifts and tits, warblers and sparrows, cranes and jays and gannetscuckoos, grebes, and larks,...

You want a day as boring as a shrub, a high, departing plane the only sound...