On the 29th of July 1909, as darkness fell over the Turó del Carmel hillside, Antoni Gaudí climbed onto the roof of his Parc Güell home. He was 57 years old. Across the city, columns of smoke rose from firelit streets. Barcelona’s churches and…
Men in women’s sports is more that a culture-war issue. It’s about girls’ and women’s professional and financial futures. Read More… Today, more than 3.4 million girls participate in high school athletics nationwide, which represents about half…
If you want to know when everything in society went to pot, it was with the invention of the automobile. Or so the author of Lord of the Rings would have you believe. Read More… Given J.R.R. Tolkien’s self-evident greatness (and the millions of…
The state has an important role in sustaining the conditions in which families can flourish. What the state cannot do is design the family as if it were a project of its own. Read More… In 2021, Spain became the first country in the European…
Anthony Malcolm Daniels, who writes under the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is the most irritating kind of cultural critic; he stubbornly refuses to accommodate himself to the ever-shifting categorical boundaries of the times. Dalrymple is…
In his first social encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV offers a compelling reflection on the relationship between artificial intelligence and human dignity. The much-anticipated document, signed on May 25 by a pope who pledged to…
As Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical emphasizes, artificial intelligence’s ability to bring economic value cannot displace essential features of humanity, which bring a priceless kind of value to our world. Read More… It has been a while since I…
The Second Vatican Council grappled with how to approach the “signs of the times” in Gaudium et Spes, giving the following warning: The modern world shows itself at once powerful and weak, capable of the noblest deeds or the foulest; before it…
The Vietnam War has been depicted onscreen repeatedly, usually as a cautionary tale of American hubris and young male naïveté. But a 2002 film directed by Randall Wallace (Braveheart) and starring Mel Gibson sees the war, and the men who died…
When a pastor I know told me about “an issue ruining marriages” in his congregation, I assumed he was going to describe a spate of financial trouble, a string of faithlessness, typical marital discord. Then he explained the trouble was “online…
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