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Where I grew up, pot-smoking was disproportionately a sport of farmers’ kids.
Reality cannot be ignored. Though hope for theological change may spring eternal today, exactly as it did, say, in 1968, we can no longer pretend...
I asked Fr. Arne for the story of how he became a priest
Explore the hopeful signs of a cultural revival in 2025, as society begins to rediscover the values of tradition, community, and moral clarity.
Showing mercy is part of being human
The essay critiques Candace Owens for aligning anti-Semitic rhetoric with Catholicism, pointing out that such views contradict Church teachings and...
As everybody knows, the battle pitting Great Books against Bad Books or No Books has been raging for a long time now.
A historic conference unfolds this week, Oct. 24 - 26, on the Franciscan University campus in Steubenville, Ohio
During the past ten years, one puzzle has repeatedly preoccupied my research and my thoughts: What causes secularization?
Black and white America alike suffer from the failure of functional older men to socialize younger men
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Christopher Lasch warned that America’s new elite had become detached from its roots—The Revolt of the Elites foretold our divide.
contemporary adolescent popular music, especially the subgenres of heavy metal and hip-hop/rap, is uniquely degraded — and degrading
By the late 1970s, when I attended public high school in rural, blue-collar Central New York, more and more teenagers were living with a divorced...
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A quixotic gambit in the supercharged run-up to November 3, 2020
QAnon and the trans-kids craze each have a creation story of “red-pilling” and a trendsetting founder.
Catholic Information Center in Washington D.C. to mark the publication of her book ‘Adam and Eve After the Pill, Revisited'
The United States is the most diverse nation on earth.
How has “loving your neighbor as yourself,” and the biblical corollary to “be kind to the strangers in your midst,” been playing out in our nation’s...
America is surfing an information tsunami these days. Cabinet appointments, executive orders, Tweet storms.
Mary Eberstadt hears a civilizational cry in her new book Primal Screams.
What happens when, for the first time in history, adult human beings are free to have all the sex and food they want?
Imagine a substance that is relatively new in the public square, but by now so ubiquitous in your society that a great many people find its presence...
Cuidar a otros al final de la vida ofrece consuelo y propósito, aunque no siempre es una recompensa inmediata.
‘I’ve spoken on many campuses. This would have been the first to require armed security.’
How did we reach the point where our society repudiates creation?
Michael roamed with authority through all these territories and more, leaving lasting tracks in each.
Midge Decter, beautiful soul, make ’em laugh up there, and rest in peace.
On June 27, Kataluna Enriquez became the first transgender woman in history to be crowned Miss Nevada USA
The woke claim to own you simply by virtue of your youth. You are overdue for upward moral mobility.
In november 2009, one of the uglier fruits of the current practice of seeding mothers into the American military burst briefly onto the national...
This is my second open letter in Newsweek since your election, trying to reach your ear as a fellow American Catholic.
The United States has never before had a president who touts his religious credentials and bona fides
We must forge, and render visible, a new alliance between Jews and Catholics, the like of which has not existed before.
The energetic renascence of anti-Catholicism in Western precincts has been making itself felt for a while now
Mr. President, you have a splendid opportunity to transcend partisanship, exactly as you promised at the inauguration.
Why aren’t vegetarians and pro-lifers more closely aligned?
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Mary Eberstadt reviews Ross Douthat’s The New Theism, exploring the author's arguments on the resurgence of religious thought in contemporary society.
Mary Eberstadt points today to the damage absent fathers do to wives, children, our whole society.
The name Karen Laub Novak is recognizable first as that of the wife and longtime love of one of the great theologians and public intellectuals of our...
Rule #1: Whenever possible, attend the annual March on the Mall.
From the inaugural Greg Craven Lecture in Ethics and Politics, which she delivered in Melbourne, Australia,
JD Vance's 2021 interview on Tucker Carlson's show sparked controversy by criticizing "childless cat ladies" and highlighting declining marriage and...
Mary Eberstadt’s The Boys in the Bandwidth examines why young men increasingly gravitate toward conservative views, finding respect and purpose in...
Adapted from a speech given on September 15 to the Society of Catholic Social Scientists upon reception of their annual Pius XI Award
She was a wife and mother who was also a mentor to hundreds, and a sister to untold numbers, especially in the clergy.
How did identity come to be political and cultural ground zero?
But they’ve broadened the target. In 1984 it was U.S. foreign policy. Today it’s the country itself.
Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J., was a brilliant yet humble Jesuit whose faith, intellect, and legacy continue to inspire. Mary Eberstadt reflects on his...
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Who among us does not depend on mercy? On the mercy of God, and of merciful fellow man?
Strangers is a masterful, beautifully argued rendition of its subject, which is the state of Christianity in a world where many modern people have...
Let us set aside theology, philosophy, ideology, and other abstractions and count up the new realities vindicating Humanae Vitae, one by one
Here a bleeding, suffering Christ stretches tautly on the Cross, staring both piteously and pitiably at the penitent near his feet.
That Humanae Vitae and related Catholic teachings about sexual morality are laughingstocks in all the best places is not exactly news.
HOW THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION BECAME A DOGMA
This essay is adapted from the author’s new book: PRIMAL SCREAMS.
The United States had also become "two nations," but the dividing line was no longer one of income or social class.
Do electorates around the world want strong father figures who will fight on their behalf?
What are identity politics?
Like pornography, antisemitism circulates on the web and delivers illicit thrills to degraded users. Christians must lead the fight against it.
Catholic voters overwhelmingly supported Trump in 2024, driven by dissatisfaction with Democratic policies on abortion, religious freedom, and...
The answer is a grim reality that deserves bipartisan attention, and has for a long time now
Reflecting on the future of the pro-life movement in an increasingly secular age.
I was supposed to speak at Furman University. I decided to beg off rather than indulge an angry mob.
