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Only the Orthodox Will Survive

Robert Benne

In the 1990s, a number of Christian public intellectuals began to take note of the secularization of…

What Parents Can Do About TikTok

Mark Bauerlein

I have some interesting news for parents who worry about what social media are doing to their kids. If…

Athens, Jerusalem, and Manhattan

Joshua T. Katz

What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem? Or the Academy with the Church? Or heretics with…

Primordial Elements

Joshua T. Katz

This article is part of our 2023 year-end campaign series, featuring reflections from prominent authors on why…

The Best Thanksgiving Film

Mark Movsesian

Thanksgiving doesn’t inspire many movies. Yet it has a central role in one of the best movies…

The Trials of Päivi Räsänen

Sean Nelson

Blessed is the man who perseveres in the trial,” declares the Epistle of James. Finnish Member of…

History Takes Flight

Francis Young

They Flew:A History of the Impossibleby carlos eire yale, 512 pages, $35  Yes, but did it really…

Letters From the Synod 2023: Special Edition 4

Xavier Rynne II

BETWEEN SYNODAL ASSEMBLIES: THE DECONSTRUCTION PROJECT CONTINUES The second assembly of the “Synod on Synodality: For a…

The Cure to Our Social Breakdown

Seth D. Kaplan

My Christian friends are intrigued when they visit my Orthodox Jewish neighborhood just outside Washington, D.C. It…

Letters From the Synod 2023: #9

Xavier Rynne II

“Domus Australia,” a pilgrim guest house and hotel near the Porta Pia in the Castro Pretorio neighborhood…

Questions to Enliven Synod-2023

George Weigel

The first session of the “Synod on Synodality,” currently meeting in Rome, is slated to be followed…

Letters from the Synod 2023: #6

Xavier Rynne II

THE “OFF-BROADWAY” SYNOD, NEOCOLONIALISM, AFRICA RISING—AND VERITATIS SPLENDOR The action at Synod-2023 is not confined to the…

Letters fronm the Synod 2023: #3

Xavier Rynne II

THOUGHTS ON “CONVERSATIONS IN THE SPIRIT” The name of the methodology being used in Synod-2023’s small-group discussions,…

Letters From the Synod 2023: Special Edition

Xavier Rynne II

A LETTER FROM CARDINAL JOSEPH ZEN Editor’s Note Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, SDB, was born in Shanghai…

The Most Important Catholic Event Since Vatican II?

George Weigel

Those most enthusiastic about the Synod on Synodality that opens on October 4 are wont to say…