“Absurd Violence” or Martyrdom?

by Julia Yost

A week’s worth of commentary on Fr. Jacques Hamel. Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2016

Does French Culture Have a Future?

by Pierre Manent

The French are exhausted, but they are first of all perplexed, lost. Things were not supposed to happen this way. Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2016

Understand the Enemy as He Understands Himself

by Rémi Brague

Fr. Hamel was not killed because he was French, but because he was a Christian, and a priest. To find economic or political reasons for his assassination is rather difficult. Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2016

Death of a Country Priest

by The Editors

Episode 3 of the First Things Podcast. Also featuring: the strange religions of the vice-presidential nominees; and a session of “Ask a Theologian,” featuring Francesca Aran Murphy. Continue Reading »

29 Jul 2016

Hypervisible Church

by Catherine Addington

When a nun is stopped on the street, it is often so that a person can work out their issues with the Church, not with her. And when Fr. Jacques Hamel is made to kneel and die, it is the Church that is attacked in his body. Continue Reading »

27 Jul 2016

Blessed are the Persecuted

by Jordan Zajac

I am deeply saddened by the attack perpetrated against Fr. Jacques Hamel. But I am not surprised by it. Continue Reading »

27 Jul 2016

“Je Suis Jacques Hamel”

by Jean Duchesne

The target of this revenge was the root of the West, the West’s living source, even when it is unremembered—namely Christianity.
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26 Jul 2016