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The German philosopher and critical theorist Jürgen Habermas has died at the age of ninety-six. The tributes and encomia pour in and will continue to pour in. He deserves...

Last week, the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released a synodal study group’s final report on “The Participation of Women in the Life and Leadership of...

The entire purpose of Lent, now past the halfway mark, is to prepare us for the glory of Easter and its revelation of the destiny that God first intended...

On Sunday night, while accepting her Academy Award for Best Actress, Hollywood star Jessie Buckley spoke lovingly of her baby daughter who had “no idea what was going on”...

When Technoblade, a popular Minecraft streamer, announced his cancer diagnosis in August 2021, the outpouring of support was immense. Though millions of viewers had never met him in person,...

Almost one year in, Pope Leo’s vision for his pontificate is still coming into focus. But there are a few key characteristics that are worth noting. First, and most...

The Prodigal of Leningradby daniel taylorparaclete press, 256 pages, $21.99 There is of course no generic “Russian novel.” Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy; Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Sinyavsky/Tertz; the Strugatsky brothers: all Russian...

Back in college, one of my literature professors once remarked that the first hundred pages of a Balzac novel are often boring, but the ones that follow are the most gripping you have ever read in your life...

Longtime readers of First Things will probably be able to guess the third in this sequence: Catholic, Protestant, _______. Astute observers will also note that First Things has so...

On a late September morning, I approached the registration table outside the entrance to a small Greek Orthodox church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. I pulled up a QR...

Since the start of 2026, Pope Leo XIV has embarked, in his Wednesday audiences, on catecheses about the Second Vatican Council. Beginning the new year with the great council...

Modern conservatives recognize their duty to reverse the devastation wrought by nearly a century of progressive cultural hegemony. And yet, even as they intuit the superiority of older, premodern...

Early Sunday morning, July 28, 2002, things were looking grim for the closing papal Mass of World Youth Day in Toronto. The previous four days had been a tremendous...

A conservative after action report on the struggle against woke corporations might highlight banks abandoning net zero goals, investors dumping ESG (environmental, social, and governance) funds, and companies celebrating...

Contempt for modernity has become a familiar posture among intellectuals, preachers, and cultural critics. Modern individualism is blamed for self-obsession and moral decay. Charles Taylor gives these critics a...