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A recent Substack post, “The parish you hate might need you,” went viral for suggesting that “church-hopping is killing our parishes.” The author, Patrick Neve, believes that Catholic church...

Early in the book, Fr. Donald Haggerty complains about the summertime crowds of tourists who pass through cathedrals and never notice the purpose of the places. They...

John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne’s farewell show, performed on July 5, was explicitly patriarchal. His musical descendants—“hard” groups like Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Tool, Slayer, and two supergroups led by...

I have few memories of the Church before Pope Francis. There were some conspiratorial warnings at a Baptist summer camp; the First Communion of a family friend was, for...

Last year, a week before Thanksgiving, a homeless man stabbed three people to death in Manhattan. The morning spree was random—not the result of a drug deal or premeditated...

I first discovered First Things in my college library’s collection of back issues (below FEMS Microbes, above Foreign Affairs). Now, as a junior fellow, one of my many tasks is...