Essay
Mary’s Immaculate Conception, explained by the Saints
The world was shocked when Pope Pius IX defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854. While Protestants rejected the teaching outright, even many [...]
Mary’s Immaculate Conception, explained by the Saints
Essay
The world was shocked when Pope Pius IX defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854. While Protestants rejected the teaching outright, even many Catholics objected to the pope’s decision. Exalting the role of [...]
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 [...]
Columns
What Benedict XVI taught us about Israel—and why it matters now
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 [...]
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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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Teeps:
I’d sincerely like to understand the Catholic basis for this statement. Leaving the current circumstances aside for a moment, let’s…
The Pitchfork Rebel:
Early in Francis' Papacy, there was a PEP (Papal Excuse Patrol) ready to qualify the Pope's innumerable and intemperate gaffes.…
