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At the beginning of his 2020 encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Pope ­Francis speaks of “an episode in the life of St. Francis that shows his openness of heart, which knew no bounds and transcended differences...

It is said that Job lost everything, but she has lost more. All her possessions—the money, the house, the clothes—they still exist, but she no longer regards them as...

I learned a new word the other day: ­déploration. It’s the French, directly from the Latin, for “lament.” But as a term for a specific musical genre, it was novel...

As the postwar era draws to an end, some Christians continue to reach for analogies to the 1930s. Social decay recalls Weimar; populist political movements and demagogues are 1933 all over again...

Jan Morris (1926–2020) was a writer of astounding gifts who not only recorded history but made it. First, as the young reporter James Morris, he joined the successful 1953 British...

Modern America worships at the altar of youth and eagerly tracks in polls and market research its latest and lightest velleities. Our present preoccupation with youth, of course, stands...

Many conversations about artificial intelligence end in a stalemate: A sentiment like “ChatGPT is awful because kids are using it as a therapist” runs up against “But it can...

Who is our Odysseus? Or more precisely, who is the most ­Odyssean hero of American film? Matt Damon’s mopey trauma patient? Certainly not....

There have been ­many books written about the online right and the Trump movement, most by people who are, to put it mildly, critical of them. This book is different....

Wheeling through the clotted earth, / Bronze, bone, and leather clumped in clay...

The Second World War left Europe invaded and ruined, divided between Soviet and American occupations. Hitler’s defeat represented a “triumph and tragedy”—the title Winston Churchill took for the final...

“Where love and understanding join, hearts are tranquil, / They rise above the turmoil of this world…

Sir Andrew Motion is former poet laureate of the United Kingdom and cofounder of the Poetry Archive...

How would you write a public letter that you know will become front-page news? Would you write it yourself, or would you have a team of lawyers or a public relations firm write it for you?...

After a Massachusetts jury failed to convict Lindsay Clancy of strangling her three small children to death with exercise bands, a friend texted me in disbelief...