Russia’s war in Ukraine may go down in history as the beginning of a new era of industrial warfare—with AI-powered drones at the center.

You Could Do Worse

Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ feels insubstantial and surprisingly slight. It's still better than most of what moviegoers are being offered these days.

Robert Rubsam

The Wounded Walker

The work of French Jesuit Michel de Certeau attempted to discern what lay beyond and beneath the glamor of postwar materialism.

Graham Ward

June 25, 2026

Can the Church reconnect with Europe?

Massimo Faggioli

Ben Lerner’s ‘Transcription’

Anthony Domestico

A defense of print

Joel Halldorf

Whatever happened to synodality?

Heidi Schlumpf

Dots on a Map

In the third and final episode of “The City and the Cross,” host and inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson reckons with what was truly lost in Detroit’s 1989 parish closures and asks whether the Catholic Church is any more committed to its Black congregants today.

The City and the Cross

podcast U.S. Catholicism

In this three-part narrative podcast series, inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson chronicles the rise, erosion, and defiant survival of Black Catholic Detroit.

Aaron Robertson

A Missing Dimension

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When Greg Grandin reduces Gustavo Gutiérrez and Pope Benedict XVI to political figures, he neglects what's most important about their work.

Paul Baumann

Beyond Couch and Clinic

Farewell Higher Education

The late Robert Coles spent years meeting subjects where they were, from the first integrated classrooms to migrant farms to the Appalachian mountains.

Kenneth L. Woodward