Editor’s note:Part 1 of this essay was published on November 29, 2023. V. The Omega point has given rise to two other cosmic theogonies that are worth reviewing here: first, a loose family of ideas […]
It is not every day that a major studio film features a Catholic priest in a sympathetic role and portrayed in a positive light. And it is even less often that he is the main […]
Napoleon Bonaparte is one of a handful of historical figures identifiable by his Christian name alone; and in his case, it is the Frenchified version of the Corsican-Italian Napoleone, the Lion of Naples. Napoleon’s native […]
In a 2017 interview, Vatican official Rodrigo Guerra López summarized the evangelical ideal behind Francis’s call for openness, dialog, listening, and accompaniment: Francis … lives under the premise of having an elementary sympathy with all people, […]
In November 2022, Michigan voters adopted a state constitutional amendment enshrining a fundamental right to “reproductive freedom,” which includes abortion up to birth, sterilization, contraception, prenatal care, and infertility care. That December, pro-abortion Governor Gretchen […]
Science, we’re often told, gives us a description of the world radically at odds with common sense. Physicist Arthur Eddington’s famous “two tables” example illustrates the theme. There is, on the one hand, the table […]
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest institutions in the world, spanning the entire globe. There may be no more daunting task for a historian than to try to write a concise (but not […]
“I’m certainly willing to believe that consciousness is somehow the fundamental substrate and we’re all just in the dream or the simulation or whatever. I think it’s interesting how much the Silicon Valley religion of […]
On October 28, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu caused a stir when he quoted a controversial passage from the Bible in the context of Israel’s war against Hamas. In a statement to the Israeli […]
Hyper-analysis of Pope Francis’s Angelus this Sunday will likely run well into the week. That’s not because of anything he said or didn’t, but because of his brief and previously unannounced visit to Rome’s Tiber […]
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