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The Tragedy of Christian Power Politics 

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“There is a time for war,” says the preacher in Ecclesiastes, “and a time for peace.” Let the present time point toward the time of perfect and ultimate peace, when the swords of nations shall be beaten into plowshares.
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A Philosopher for All Seasons 

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West shows us in Maritain what a Christian philosopher in our time should look like. 
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The Magisterial Minimism of John Henry Newman 

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Inconsistencies in official religious teachings are frequently only apparent. 
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Liquid Selves, Empty Selves: A Q&A with Angela Franks

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I’m all for refuting bad ideas. But the way you really convince people is to show them that what they want, they’re not getting from the wrongheaded idea, but they can get it from a correct understanding of what’s good and true.
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Thanksgiving Is Contemplation 

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When we give thanks, we do more than cultivate a human virtue. We contemplate the good we have received and, at our best, share in a glimpse of that original vision that saw in each created thing: “It was good.” 
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby at 100 

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All forms of art are acts of creation and, on a small scale, the artist is participating in an act of creation that is ultimately an act of God, the Creator of all things.  
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The Parental Arms Race Needs to End 

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In a world where “success” is increasingly understood as zero-sum, we might have some empathy for today’s parents who are worried they are letting their kids down if they are not setting them up to succeed, even if that comes at a collective cost.  
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The Bookshelf: Vive la Différence! Vive le Mystère! 

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The taste for mysteries has more than one cause, but a keenness to see justice done, and the balance of the world set right, takes pride of place.
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Rethinking Localism 

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Our ability to trust and the ability of others to keep promises uncorrupted make navigating social life possible.
Local library

Institutions and Influence 

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If we can’t trust our own institutions, even locally, to respond to individual and shared needs, at least some of those institutions may require rethinking. 
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Defending Women’s Spaces: A Leftist Case 

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The issue of allowing trans-identifying men’s access to women’s spaces should unite rather than divide. No matter one’s political affiliation, all should support policies keeping men out of women’s spaces. 
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TikTok Between the Body and Christ 

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Before we indulge in more time online, it is worth considering whether the images flashing on that screen are ultimately pointing us toward the humanity and healing power of Christ or a disfigured version of the kind of body a technocratic culture wishes us to have.
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The “Tea” App and the New Barbarism 

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Instead of relying on apps, perhaps we can, instead, invite friends over and run our concerns through a more reliable filter: the thoughts, impressions, and wisdom of those who know and love us, off-screen.  
St. Thomas Aquinas

Celebrating Aquinas in China  

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Thomas Aquinas can be celebrated by the peoples of both oceans.
AI

Beware of Catholic AI 

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We are not machines and cannot be well formed by them either. Human formation should be primarily human—even if it’s easier and faster to dole out our questions to a machine.
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Coercion and Religion 

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Religion needs the power of government, but not in the way some think. 
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Babies, Made to Order: The New York Times Sounds the Reproductive Technology Alarm 

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If Siddiqui's new moral imperative for artificial, disembodied procreation to ensure perfectly healthy babies becomes the norm, have we not lost something truly beautiful and human, the link between physical sexual communion and procreation?   
Mother stressing kid out over perfectionism and homework

Intensive Parenting Is (Probably) Incompatible with Having Many Kids.

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Is it possible to be considered a good parent today if your top priority is not perfecting your children, but rather simply being their “safe place”? I don’t know the answer, but it seems to me that being a warm and loving parent that children feel safe with is both a worthy and challenging goal. I have often reflected that many of my worst parenting mistakes happened when I tried to convince my kids to be other than the people they are.
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Parenting Doesn’t Have to Be This Hard. You Can Just Tell Your Kids What to Do. 

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Take it from me: girl boss or not, travel sports or not, having kids can be a lot easier and more fun if you just remember that you’re the grown-up.
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How to Take Disaffected Young Men Seriously 

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Right-wing young men see a politics and culture that celebrates every identity but theirs, cultivates a totalitarian ideological culture that directly undermines their beliefs, desires, and life goals, and is set to leave them significantly worse off—socially, economically, culturally, spiritually—than their grandparents. Any successful attempt to reach these young men will need to seriously address these deeply rooted sentiments. 
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Israel and the Promise of Peace: Two Essays

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A pair of essays about the state of war, and of peace, in Israel
Antisemitism in the U.S.

Anti-Semitism: Grave Sin and Civic Cancer 

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Let us do our duty. Let us slam shut and then nail shut the Overton Window on anti-Semitism and thereby help give our country a new birth of freedom rightly understood.  
St. Peter's

WEEKEND SPECIAL: Doctor of the Church, Doctor of the University 

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A spiritual and intellectual dialogue with John Henry Newman
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Christianity and Change 

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There is no one factor that can explain our polarization, nor any one solution. But Newman can still teach us. Without speculating about what Newman would say or do in this situation, let us instead consider some key principles and arguments that Newman sought to establish in his own day, which are just as applicable today.