November 2025
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Letters
I found Matthew Burdette’s analysis in “The Right to Be Killed” (August/September 2025) engaging. However, Burdette holds…
The Death of Halloween
I fell in love with autumn as a child. Much as I enjoyed summer, I always longed…
Modernity and God-Talk
The great temptation of the modern world is to live as if God did not exist—etsi Deus…
Indigenous London
Before London was a global city, it was just a city, and people lived there. Across its…
Voyages to the End of the World
Francis Bacon dreamed of abolishing disease, natural disasters, and chance itself. He also dreamed of abolishing God.
The Romanticism of Jean Raspail
One day, the French writer Jean Raspail looked out over the Mediterranean Sea and asked, “What if…
Anglican Imaginary
I have long thought that the Great Litany of the Book of Common Prayer represents most fully…
The Road to Chartres
Rain was falling as we reached camp on that first night, and I was questioning my choices.…
Home, Not Real Estate
As a cultural touchstone, Saturday Night Live has been irrelevant for at least a decade now, or…
How I Learned to Love Confession
When I converted to Catholicism in 2023 after eighteen months of RCIA, I was almost totally ignorant…
Good Christians First
America is awash in rights talk. Rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness permeate…
Two Takes on Pope Leo
Already we have had an array of first-hundred-days analyses of Pope Leo XIV, as though the first…
Metaphysics of Care
Shortly after I had a baby, I realized that what I had long understood by “feminism” had…
Sage Against the Machine
When I was a first-year doctoral student in England, a venerable Cambridge don whom I will not…
Briefly Noted
Our Lady of the Green Scapular charts a relay race of grace. The vision granted to Sr.…
Agonistic End Times
In Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot notes, “The end is where we start from.” Our sense of…
The Mediocrity of AI
Will AI evolve and supersede human intelligence, ushering in the tyranny of machines? Is the economy careering…
Christian Heroism
The heroic dimension of faith and discipleship was prominent in the early church. In his Life of…
While We’re At It
According to the Wall Street Journal, construction spending on churches is up. For two decades, church attendance…
Coleridge at Midnight
He has been one acquainted with the darkAnd cold, the walks in rain across the hills,The vagaries…
