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“In the presence of the angels I will praise Thee…”

September 29, 2026 Sandra Miesel 39

Popular culture reflects the true nature of angels as faithfully as a funhouse mirror. It shows glorious incorporeal spirits in fanciful shapes, from pudgy winged babies to ethereal Nature goddesses, and turns these false images […]

Essay

Contemplating the astounding power of Padre Pio’s ministry, gifts, and trials

September 23, 2026 Dawn Beutner 6

Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968) was famous during his lifetime. He wasn’t a brilliant theologian, an innovative religious founder, a martyr, a bishop, a cardinal, or a pope. He was a Capuchin Franciscan friar who […]

Essay

How the Mass helped to shape Western civilization

September 22, 2026 Dr. Gregory Slysz 19

There is no shortage of recent literature across the political spectrum warning of the profound cultural crisis confronting the West and the erosion of the moral assumptions that once bound society together. Douglas Murray writes […]

Books

A Liberal Revolution masterfully chronicles post-conciliar confusion and decline

September 14, 2026 John Pepino, PhD 107

There are books one reads in a single sitting, index finger atremble to turn to the next page. Hanael Bianchi’s A Liberal Revolution is such a book. For Catholics who were subjected to the liturgy and […]

Books

Odysseus and the Passage of Time

July 18, 2026 John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. 14

The Odyssey is one of the oldest and most lasting works in Western literature, so it’s no surprise that Christopher Nolan is the latest in a long line of people–authors, artists, and filmmakers–who seek to […]

Books

The Lasting Brilliance of the Second Spring: A Review of Converts

July 7, 2026 James Matthew Wilson 4

“The English Church was, and the English Church was not, and the English Church is once again. This is the portent, worthy of a cry. It is the coming in of a Second Spring,” preached […]

Essay

Digging deeper into the “Christian” origins of feminism and of our nation

June 29, 2026 Dr. Margaret Harper McCarthy 34

The current debate over the Christian origins of feminism is a lot like the one over the Christian origins of America. It is argued that the Founders of America and the “first wave” feminists were […]

Essay

What St. Josemaría Escrivá’s detractors can teach us about him and about holiness

June 26, 2026 Dawn Beutner 11

Not every saint is universally esteemed at the time of his or her death. False accusations from a hostile priest stained the reputation of Saint John of the Cross for decades after he died. Soon-to-be […]

Books

New collection of Augusto Del Noce essays explain dynamics of Marxism, Fascism

June 22, 2026 Dr. Thomas R. Rourke 13

The Suicide of the Revolution is the newest installment of Carlo Lancellotti’s project of translating and editing the works of Augusto Del Noce into English, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in Montreal.1 It is an attempt […]

Books

Second volume of Justice Scalia biography portrays a unique “founder”

June 16, 2026 Austin Ruse 2

The founding of America was not a single event. It was a process that began long before the documents that broke us away from Great Britain and the documents that established our government. Long before […]

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George Weigel discusses each in a short essay on the First Things site about his new book, Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church: The challenge can be defined simply: Throughout the Western world, the culture no […]

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