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James Chappel’s new book offers a fundamentally optimistic guide to the shifting view and experience of aging in America.

The risk of nuclear war is higher now than it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Catholic principles of just peace can move us back from the brink.

“stepping out to drink and drink a water welling up to eternal life to drink up a gluttony gulping for the cracked topsoil and the parched lips ten thousand miles away”

A special agent and investigator reflects on the confessional relationships he has formed over sixteen years of work with defendants.

The editors read about conversion, women-led regenerative agriculture, and Gaza.

The 1950 Jubilee Year was a landmark moment for American Catholics, who were coming into their own power—and wealth—during an era of Cold War upheaval.

In an ideal world, we would not need nuclear weapons. But this is not an ideal world, and deterrence remains the foundation of U.S. national security.

While history doesn’t repeat itself, it does rhyme. Today’s traditionalism parallels the Jansenist crisis in early modern Catholicism.

“The frame of the moment / without the event, / possibility’s / untapped reservoir”

“And he will come to himself as the son / comes to the father after a bitter estrangement. / And he will forgive himself many things, everything.”

Few scholars were more available or productive than the late Lawrence Cunningham.

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ‘The Serviceberry’ approaches the natural world through reciprocity and cooperation, rather than competition and exploitation.