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On November 25, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ordered Poland to recognize same-sex marriage. Polish law does not provide for same-sex marriage, and Poland’s constitution explicitly declares the...

Earlier this summer, Egypt’s Ministry of Religious Endowments launched a new campaign. It is entitled “Correct Your Concepts,” and you need exert little effort to figure out which perceptions...

This poem was written by St. Francis of Assisi, and translated by Dana Gioia. Most high, all powerful, and most good Lord,Yours are the praises, glory, honor, blessings.Only to...

In these early days of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV has made one thing clear: The responsible use of AI will be one of his central themes. It has...

Something like a civil war is unfolding within the American conservative movement. It is not merely a dispute about policy agendas, foreign alliances, or the boundaries of political discourse....

The Nativity of our Lord—born an infant, laid in a manger. It’s an utterly strange story: The Creator of all things takes the flesh of and lives as a...

Remorseless sun     stunts the dew Glistening towers     of tainted glassignite and blister     in blood-yellow lightrecalling the tallest     of crumbling tombsas humbler...

As a Protestant, I began ­Valerie Stivers’s “How I Learned to Love Confession” (November 2025) mentally recalling the catechetical rebuttals . . .

Nicolas Poussin, the greatest French artist of the seventeenth century, once said that Caravaggio had come into the world to destroy painting. ­Poussin’s concept of beauty led him to...

Many regard “postliberalism” as a political program. In 1993, when the tide of globalized liberalism was at its highwater mark, the contrarian John Gray published Post-Liberalism: Studies in Political...

The problem with the evangelical elite is that there isn’t one. All too few evangelical Christians hold senior positions in the ­culture-shap­ing domains of American ­society. Evangelicals don’t run...

A physician declares his dying patient—a seven-pound baby boy—“dangerous as dynamite,” a “menace to society.” A routine medical procedure could save the boy’s life, but he was born deformed....

In his excellent book about our troubled times, Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis, James Davison Hunter notes that enduring solidarity rests on common...

This essay was delivered as the 38th Annual Erasmus Lecture. The circumstances of my life have been such that I have moved, since adolescence, in a ­borderland between languages....

The leather binding, torn and askew,is barely joined by brittle pieces of Scotch tape.  And the names and streets, long since fled to a digital cloud of witnesses, are more like...