Lying on his deathbed after two decades of running France, Cardinal Richelieu was asked whether he forgave his enemies. “I have no enemies,” the cardinal is supposed to have said, “only the enemies of ...

It is entirely reasonable that rising conversion among young people to the Catholic Church has happened outside of her most prominent universities. Apart from a select few whose ...

In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Jason Bedrick joins in to discuss his recent book, The Phoenix Principles: Toward a Rebirth of ...

The dispute between Highland Park Methodist Church (HPMC) and the Horizon Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC) has entered the national conversation. Ruth Graham covered the story for ...

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Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches” (Rev. 2:11). This passage from Scripture is frequently quoted to justify a so-called “synodal Church,” a concept that at ...

The battles raging on the right since Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes are not new. They are a continuation of a conflict that goes back more than thirty years, to the era when ...

More than two centuries ago, Søren Kierkegaard attacked the established church of his native Denmark. He denounced it for encouraging outward “Christian” behavior rather than authentic belief. People ...

The Synod of Bishops is currently congregating in Rome for a four-week meeting of the Synod on Synodality. A second session will follow in October 2024. The theme of “synodality” is a notion ...

When Time magazine published its issue on the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, the columnist and pundit Peggy Noonan wrote the profile for her former boss, Ronald Reagan. She began by ...

In two recent articles on the Respect for Marriage Act, David French both argues that the legislation contains provisions sufficient to protect religious dissenters and apparently accepts the ...