Essay
The Artificial God
Modern politics began in the seventeenth century with a technological ambition: to build an “artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural,” [...]
The Artificial God
Essay
Modern politics began in the seventeenth century with a technological ambition: to build an “artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural,” an “automaton that moves by springs and wheeles as doth [...]
What Benedict XVI taught us about Israel—and why it matters now
Columns
When devout Catholic young people start approaching you, troubled by the possibility that God has abandoned the Jews and that they somehow stand behind our social ills, it becomes clear that something has gone deeply [...]
Analysis
Artificial Womb Technology: Daedalus Revisited
On May 30, 2025, Japanese researchers at Juntendo University (Bunkyō, Tokyo) pulled back the curtain on their model of artificial womb technology (AWT). Dubbed the EVE therapy system, this artificial womb, after being successfully tested [...]
Columns
Faith here and now
Chesterton called America “a nation with the soul of a church.” He was largely right. Not all Americans buy into the whole of our national creed, but it’s real, and it dominates public life. It [...]
Analysis
Scrolling ourselves to death
The recent revelation that Meta employees privately compared themselves to drug pushers while the company suppressed evidence of severe mental health harms to children arrives with the subtlety of a fire alarm in a library. [...]
Features
Eastern Catholics in the United States: A Look at the Numbers
In Orientalium Ecclesiarum, the 1964 Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, the fathers of the Second Vatican Council declared: The Catholic Church holds in high esteem the institutions, liturgical rites, ecclesiastical traditions and the established standards of [...]
Features
Bishop Daniel E. Thomas discusses vocations, evangelization, transgenderism
Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, 66, is the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio. He is originally from Philadelphia and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in 1985. He lived in [...]
Essay
Embracing the Embarrassment of Advent
“It might be said of Advent that it is not for the faint of heart. To grasp the depth of the human predicament, one has to be willing to enter into the very worst.” — [...]
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The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with [...] -
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Peter D. Beaulieu:
Possibly yes…in the sense that in both cases—the Vatican Library (and the entire Vatican?) and the Christian prayer room—Christianity is…
Mary. Bren nan:
Our. Lady. Mary. Thank. aswers. My.pray. and. Bless. My Life. Problem. With. Knee I. have. Cancer. Thank. Been With. Me.…
Moira Eastman:
I agree with your policy of civilised debate. The shroud is an amazing article. No medieval artist could have created…
