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 ...

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 ...

It is entirely reasonable that the rise in young converts to the Catholic Church has happened outside of her most prominent universities. Apart from a select few whose students arrive already ...

As the realistic English novel was emerging in a glorious birth amid the intellectual and moral tumult of the Enlightenment—the indomitable virtuous zeal of Samuel Richardson met at every turn by the ...

An old platitude of the cultural left is that sexual identity is innate. In vintage early-2010s style, people are simply “born this way.” Social science tells us otherwise. Data released last month ...

Father, I don’t think you should bring politics into religion.” That’s a line I’ve heard a lot lately. Of course, nobody really believes it. People only trot out that complaint when it’s not their ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Michel Foucault. He was influential in his lifetime, but forty-two years after his death, while contemporaries such as Derrida have faded from view, ...

During a Gaudium et Spes 22 podcast on the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas this past June, I said to my friend Larry Chapp, perhaps more flippantly than the subject warranted, that the folks leading ...

Pope Leo XIV marked World Day Against the Death Penalty, observed on October 10, with the following message on X: The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and ...