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Letters—October 2026
I’m grateful for Stephan Pax Leonard’s essay on his conversion to Orthodoxy (“Why I Became Orthodox,” June/July…
Pope Leo’s Unified Church
On today’s episode, Fr. James Martin joins Virginia and Germán. As a Catholic, growing up online meant…
Government’s Sex Abuse Hypocrisy Comes Due
I worked in senior staff positions in Catholic dioceses for twenty-seven years. For nearly all of them…
A Great Teacher and a Welcome Manifesto
Reluctant as I am to fiddle with the U.S. Constitution, I’m willing to consider an amendment banning…
The Best Film Ever?
Nineteen sixty-six was great for movies, and six decades later, the five nominated for Best Picture at…
The Cathedral as Heaven
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Bishop Robert Barron…
The Fourth Watch
In this episode, James F. Keating joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about…
Stories That Tell the U.S. Catholic Story
Fiction can often convey the human texture of a time and place better than scholarly works of…
The Last Grand Master from a Grander Age
The death of Sir Anthony Kenny on August 3, at the age of ninety-five, broke one of…
Spiraling Down in Speyer
Speyer is a charming city on the west bank of the Rhine River. Its splendid medieval core…
Have American Catholics Given Up on Evangelizing?
Here’s a simple, biblical truth: We’re never as smart as we think we are, and we’re never…
The Wandering Bishops
Immediately after the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) consecrated four new bishops in an Alpine meadow…
A Catholic Moment or an Evangelical Century?
Contrary to online chatter, we are not in a “Catholic moment.” But we may already be in…
The Summer Reading List: 2026
A 2025 YouGov poll revealed some interesting factoids about Americans’ reading habits—or lack thereof. Forty percent of…
Who Gets Custody of the Latin Mass?
In any messy breakup, there are the inevitable conflagrations over custody of the kids, the dog, the…
