Humanity on the Page

What is the future for literature in a world where machines churn out plausible facsimiles of our most artful human narratives?

Rand Richards Cooper

A Crisis of Belonging

For Anton Jäger, ours is an era of political excitation absent durable organization. Pope Francis can help us envision a better way forward.

Daniele Palmer

Pope and President, at Odds Again?

Trump keeps pushing policies that are opposed by Catholic teaching—and this U.S.-born pope doesn’t seem to be willing to keep quiet about them.

Heidi Schlumpf

April 28, 2026

The letters of John Updike

Anthony Giardina

Who can justify the war with Iran?

Paul Baumann

A surge in Catholic conversions

Massimo Faggioli

Trump's scandalous war budget

The Editors

Reclaiming Attention

On this episode, Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett shares how we can take back our minds from the depredations of Big Tech.

Slouching Toward Beirut

It’s too soon to determine whether the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will last. In the meantime, the Lebanese have their dead to bury.

Joseph Phillip Amar

A Lifetime Enterprise

Poetry Books

A posthumous collection of essays from Helen Vendler illustrates to readers exactly what it means to inhabit a poem.

William H. Pritchard

Should Leo visit the United States?

Pope Leo XIV Donald Trump War and Peace

For Pope Leo to visit the United States under present circumstances would be far more scandalous than his simply staying away.

Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

Tennyson’s Honest Doubt

Books Secularism and Modernity Poetry

Alfred Tennyson’s faith was shaken as scientific discoveries redefined his world. But a crisis of faith isn’t always a conquest of it.

Todd Shy

After the Chavez revelations

Gender Labor Politics Culture Race

The farmworkers’ movement was never meant to be about one man, but the people. After the Cesar Chavez revelations, that must remain our ideal.

Claudia Avila Cosnahan

Get Conversion Therapy Out of the Church

LGBTQ issues Supreme Court Religion Bishops

Conversion therapy is psychologically unhealthy and spiritually hazardous. Catholic bishops and organizations must stop supporting it.

Heidi Schlumpf

The Rise of the Catholic Chatbot

Technology Artificial Intelligence Religion

I’ve recently been experimenting with the Catholic AI chatbot Truthly. The experience of interacting with it is not unlike talking to some priests.