Commentary
The pope’s new knights: Bringing faith to the tech frontier
Solène Tadié, National Catholic Register Tuesday, November 11, 2025 How can a civilization increasingly relying on code and data remain truly human? From Silicon Valley to Brussels, observers sense that technology is not just transforming…
Six months on, Pope Leo finds his footing and starts charting his own path and style
“You get used to it.” That was Pope Leo XIV‘s matter-of-fact response when King Charles III asked about the swarms of television cameras documenting his historic visit to the Vatican last month. After his shocking election in May and sharp…
Trump’s remarks ignite hope for Nigerian Christians – but reality on the ground is complex
Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register Monday, November 10, 2025 President Trump said Christianity is “facing an existential threat” in the West African nation, adding that “thousands and thousands of Christians are being killed” and that…
Mamdani and the new phase of wokeness
What happened to wokeness? This is one of the most insistent questions in political commentary today. Do Donald Trump’s reelection and the much-ballyhooed “vibe shift” mean that wokeness is gone for good? Or is it just in remission, soon to…
Nigerian Christians respond to Trump’s intervention on persecuted Christians
Nigerian Christians have responded to President Donald Trump ordering the American military to prepare for possible action in Nigeria to protect Christians from Islamist violence. According to Open Doors, in 2024 Nigeria was the country with the…
Zohran Mamdani, Nick Fuentes, and Weimar America
Rod Dreher, European Conservative Thursday, November 6, 2025 What is emerging in the United States today is the collapse of the center under pressure from the extremes of both Left and Right. This is a cancer growing fast within the conservative…
The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard
Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report Thursday, November 6, 2025 “Mater Populi Fidelis” comes off, in places, as an exercise in selective targeting while using argumentation that should, by all rights, be applied to a host of far more serious and…
Artificial intelligence bots deny Leo XIV is pope
For months now, something odd has happened when some internet users ask ChatGPT, the ubiquitous artificial intelligence tool from OpenAI, about Pope Leo XIV. “It looks like there might be a bit of confusion with the name, as there has never been…
The Inklings and abortion – The Catholic Thing
Jonathon Van Maren, First Things Wednesday, November 5, 2025 There is a connection between the twenty-first-century abortion wars and the Inklings of Oxford. Owen Barfield, the philosopher, novelist, and a key influence on both C.S. Lewis and…
Pope St. John Paul II and antisemitism
As the Polish pope taught, it is our civic duty to our fellow citizens of the stock of Abraham, who, not without difficulty, have nonetheless been fully participant in the American democratic experiment for centuries, as witnessed by George…