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At St. Patrick’s, a Battle of the Icons
I love St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. It was painful to see it the object of…
Remembering Mao’s Carnival of Hate
Red Memory:The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolutionby tania branigan w.w. norton, 304 pages, $29.95 At a 1979…
Citizenship Is the Medication for Existential Angst
The question of identity haunts us, we inhabitants of the 20th and 21st centuries, underlying all our political excesses…
Israeli Strategy and Palestinian Despair
Jerusalem was awakened this past Shabbat morning by sirens announcing missiles and by the low thud of…
No Classical School Nearby? No Problem
The map of schools that are in the network of the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education continues…
Nature Is Our Sister, Not Our Mother
Just a few weeks ago, I spoke at the annual convention of the G. K. Chesterton Society.…
Pope Francis and “Great Imperial Russia”
It seems odd that a 21st-century pope would enthuse about “great imperial Russia,” especially at a time…
The Fatal Message of Synodal Activism
The German and Swiss bishops have hit a dead end with their “synodal” project. The way forward…
The Uses of Death
From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Bodyby randall b. smithemmaus…
What Henri de Lubac Would Think of the Synod on Synodality
Henri de Lubac, S.J., one of the twentieth century’s greatest Catholic theologians, was among the prominent figures…
The Consuming Fire of Love
In 1905, the Scottish theologian P. T. Forsyth delivered a lecture in his role as chairman of…
Catastrophes in Ukraine
In the calm of the night train chugging from Przemyśl to Kyiv before dawn on May 9,…
Cormac McCarthy Was No Nihilist
Bear the standard for religious orthodoxy with First Things. Make your contribution to our 2023 spring campaign today at evo.firstthings.com/donate.…
Culture of Fragility
I have noticed a new “culture of fragility” among my fellow academics in recent years. There is…
Learning From the UMC’s Mistakes
As the United Methodist Church goes through an increasingly bitter, slow-motion divorce, with theologically orthodox members forming…
