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Illinois state coroners recently gathered to discuss the proposed physician-assisted suicide bill that awaits a signature on Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk. Of the one hundred or so county coroners,...

Forty days after his resurrection, Jesus meets the remaining eleven disciples on a mountain in Galilee. He declares his authority in heaven and on earth and sends his disciples...

In a recent in-flight interview, Pope Leo mentioned that Brother Lawrence’s The Practice of the Presence of God was one of the great influences on his spiritual life. Lawrence...

On November 27, 2023, thirty-six-year-old Alissa Golob walked through the doors of the Cabbagetown Women’s Clinic in Toronto, Canada. She had two young children at home, $2,137 in her...

Over my many years in the U.S., I have resisted the temptation to buy into the catastrophism that characterizes American conservative commentary on my homeland, from claims about NHS...

Surveys indicate that reading books is dropping precipitously across all age groups. This is a tragedy in itself; it’s also a social disaster, as a post-literate society risks becoming...

The popularity of Nick Fuentes is in its way a fulfillment of Ross Douthat’s much-quoted ominous prophecy that the “post-Christian right” will rise to replace the Christian right. While...

n the third grade, my teacher asked if we knew the difference between Democrats and Republicans. I immediately shot my hand up and recited what my parents had taught me: “Democrats care about. . .

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— / Little we see in Nature that is ours; / We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!”

The following is an excerpt from the first edition of The Fourth Watch, a newsletter about Catholicism from First Things. We invite you to subscribe by clicking here. The Fourth Watch, authored by James...

Yesterday, November 30, was the Feast of St. Andrew, Jesus’s first apostle. Why did Jesus call on Andrew to become his first disciple? Matthew’s Gospel gives us a hint....

"In the last few weeks,” the theologian Jacob Phillips recently remarked, “I’ve spoken at various Catholic events which were full to the brim with recent converts in the 18-30 age range...

August 2025 in northern England was chilly and windy. I had gone over to this land along the Anglo-Scottish border one month earlier, in July, to scout out St....

How can we express thanks for an inexpressible gift? If someone brings a turkey to Thanksgiving dinner, we easily find words to describe the gift and convey our gratitude:...

As we pause to give thanks for family, turkey, and Plymouth in the year 1621, take a few moments to give thought as well to the very word “thanksgiving,”...