Sixty years ago, on June 7, 1965, the Supreme Court in its Griswold v. Connecticut decision ruled against a state ban on contraception. This established the infamous “right to privacy” that was later used to […]
In 2023, the newly minted cardinal Robert Prevost was asked by CNS about comments he made a decade earlier on “beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel,” including abortion and the “homosexual lifestyle.” Had his views […]
In the interregnum between the death of Pope Francis and the conclave to elect his successor, a quotation from Pope Benedict XVI—then Cardinal Ratzinger—has been making the rounds on social media. It comes from a 1997 […]
The worlds of Catholic theology and philosophy can, at times, feel overwhelmingly vast. One could spend an entire lifetime studying just one or two thinkers, never mind the whole panoply of brilliance across two thousand […]
When Mufasa: The Lion King was released in theaters, I was unable to join our family in seeing it. But, almost immediately after, my wife and kids began drawing me into the world of its […]
As we approach the halfway point of the Lenten season, many of us are experiencing a sort of “mid-Lent crisis.” So many things we had hoped to accomplish remain undone, half-done, or not really done—checked off, in […]
Two recent editorials in The New York Times—one by Damien Cave and one by Amanda Taub—argue that “zero-sum game” thinking is on the rise in American geopolitics. In a zero-sum game, like tic-tac-toe or chess, one person’s gain is […]
In his talk on the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, which has now amassed almost three million views on YouTube, Bishop Robert Barron calls Christ’s “bread of life” teaching in John 6 a “standing […]
This past Tuesday evening, Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP—Dominican priest, cofounder of the bluegrass band the Hillbilly Thomists, and the first American rector of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome (colloquially the […]
Bryan Johnson, a tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has dedicated himself to the age-old pursuit of the fountain of youth, but with a new twist: putting all the power of modern science and technology to […]
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