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Why the Church cannot ordain women
Arguments for women’s ordination often assume a power the Church says she does not possess and has never claimed to exercise
Luke Collins
Faith, politics and the rise of MAGA Catholics
As the political loyalties of many American Catholics shift from Democrat roots to Republican loyalties, the consequences for unity within the Church are becoming harder to ignore
Fr Dwight Longenecker
In defence of nepotism
A culture obsessed with meritocracy risks overlooking the moral legitimacy of prioritising the family and its obligations
Delphine Chui
America still needs heroes
In an age of division and discouragement, the courage of Oklahoma high school principal Kirk Moore shows what still inspires and unites
Jacqueline O'Hara
Interview with Joseph Pearce: Why Middle-earth is not a pagan myth
Joseph Pearce and Jan C Bentz examine the theological vision in Tolkien’s fiction, from providence and liturgy to the Catholic imagination
Jan C. Bentz
The case against crony corporatism
How the alliance between large corporations and the regulatory state risks long-term economic stagnation and social peril
Declan J. Ganley
The war between the sexes isn’t accidental
The growing mistrust between men and women is not only a social phenomenon but a spiritual one, and Catholics should resist answering it with either blame or despair
Delphine Chui
Lola Salem on… the Anglo-Gaullist mirage
As British thinkers reach for Gaullist inspiration, Lola Salem questions whether a borrowed myth can restore a nation increasingly unsure of its own story and inheritance
Lola Salem
Altar boys are back
As the Church reflects on the decision to allow girls to serve at the altar in the 1990s, some parishes are seeing a renewed emphasis on boys as servers
Fr Dwight Longenecker
Rediscovering the case for Christ in prophecy
A new book explores how Old Testament prophecy continues to point to the divine reality of Jesus and deepen faith among believers today
Clement Harrold
Blasphemy, backlash and the American Catholic vote
Reactions to a provocative image and allegations of bias raise questions about how Catholics should weigh political choices
Jacqueline O'Hara
Recovering a sense of the Church as a given reality
As communal religious identity has faded, many Catholics experience their faith as a repeated choice rather than a settled fact
Patrick Neve
Hungary after Orbán
Viktor Orbán’s electoral defeat marks a political turning point, but his legacy and Péter Magyar’s programme resist easy interpretation
Jan C. Bentz
When rebellion loses its object
A provocative collection asks what becomes of a subculture defined by transgression when the mainstream abandons its own rules
Joseph Shaw
Will there be food in Heaven?
The Resurrection affirms the goodness of the body and hints at a renewed creation in which nothing good is lost
Clement Harrold
Why so many Americans are becoming Catholic
From packed adoration nights to crowded confession lines, signs of renewed interest in Catholicism suggest that authentic witness and digital access are helping bring Americans to the faith
Jacqueline O'Hara
The return of the patron
A young company seeks to restore the ancient relationship between artist and patron, inviting ordinary people to commission works of lasting beauty
Jan C. Bentz
Death in the Catholic imagination
David Hahn reflects on the Catholic understanding of death, contrasting it with a sanitised secular view that pays little attention to its eternal consequences
David Hahn
Sacramental imagination and the recovery of enchantment
Modernity claims to have stripped the world of meaning, but Tolkien offers a vision in which reality remains charged with significance
Jan C. Bentz
Europe’s crypts still have lessons for the living
Among the Habsburg tombs of Vienna, a culture uneasy with death meets enduring truths about mortality
Georgia L. Gilholy
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