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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...

I just came across a 3×5 card (yes, I still routinely use that primitive technology) on which I had jotted down some titles that were scheduled to be published...

The United States lost one of its brightest souls on November 8 when Manuel “Manny” Miranda died at age sixty-six. For decades, Manny was a seminal figure at the...

With the border secure, the time is ripe for comprehensive immigration reform for the first time in forty years. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops offers our legislators an...

In recent months, Spain has become an epicenter in the battle over Europe’s diminishing Christian identity. At stake is the fate of the Valle de los Caídos—the Valley of...

It’s a Marian week on the Catholic calendar, with three feasts observed in five days: Immaculate Conception (December 8), Our Lady of Loreto (December 10), and Our Lady of...

Henry Olsen’s essay last week—“Does Heritage Support Discrimination Against Women?”—may be the worst Atlantic disaster since the Titanic. And yet conservatives of every tribe should read it, especially the...

Last week, the White House released a new National Security Strategy (NSS). It’s an annual ritual mandated by a 1986 act of Congress to ensure that the legislative branch...

The recent attack by an Afghan national on two National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., was not an outlier. Since coming to the United States, Afghans have murdered, attempted to...

Pope Leo XIV recently told participants in a juridical-pastoral formation course of the Roman Rota that the process of matrimonial annulments is not just a “means aimed solely at...

Before I went to university, Vatican II seemed to be a settled issue. By 1990, however, disagreements and different interpretations of its documents had emerged, stirring controversy. The operation...

Nietzsche, in his Genealogy of Morals, is prescient once again: “In case [the psychologists] might for once want to study ressentiment at close quarters: this plant now blooms...

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...