A Friendly Game for a Beatific State
James Montague, the New York Times
A Response to Radner’s A Brutal Unity
William Cavanaugh, Syndicate
Patriarch Says He Will Discuss Middle East Christians with Pope
Francis X. Rocca, the National Catholic Reporter
A Terrible Beauty: The Gerry Adams Story Continues
Timothy Hoyt, War on the Rocks
Abortion, Slavery, and Constitutional Meaning
Nathaniel Peters, Public Discourse
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…