Calling them “agitators and insurrectionists,” President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice have pledged to swiftly and fully investigate the mob that invaded Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, this past Sunday. Founded in January…
SPOKANE, WA — Local man Travis Barnes sadly failed to check his phone for one hour, missing out on the entirety of World War III.Barnes pulled out his phone only to learn that the war had ended, and also that the war had begun."Aw,…
The world is a dirty place, but it is not about carbon emissions or some other such stuff – it’s about people. People that kill people. People that effectively enslave people with drugs or false religion. Evil people. They are what make the…
A cold winter is well underway in the American Midwest, and the ice is taking many forms. The weather has been dark and forbidding, but the other frozen form is in the shape of assisted suicide. On December 12, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker…
In a previously unpublished 2014 homily by Papa Ratzinger, the Pope Emeritus writes about the importance of the lamb in Scripture: “We find a first hint, a first prediction, in the story of Abraham: the sacrifice of Isaac (cf. Gen 22). God had…
When I first began devouring Catholic fiction in college, I couldn’t figure out why J. F. Powers immediately struck a chord with me and Flannery O’Connor (this year is the centenary of her birth) did not. It wasn’t that one was better than the…
Mendel Horowitz, First Things Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Before the Hamas war against Israel, the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, and yesterday’s shooting attack in Australia, I associated Hanukkah with triumph rather than…
Terrorists calmly firing into a crowd at a Hanukkah celebration. Screams. Panic. Parents fleeing with hysterical children. Victims lying dead on the sand. That is the “globalized intifada” that tens of thousands of people around the world have…
Kristen Ziccarelli, First Things Monday, December 15, 2025 In recent months, Spain has become an epicenter in the battle over Europe’s diminishing Christian identity. At stake is the fate of the Valle de los Caídos (the Valley of the Fallen)…
Wirestock/iStock/Getty Images Plus There may be a reason why, according to an AI analysis, approximately 40 percent of global-warming girl Greta Thunberg’s recent activism has involved anything but global warming. And it could just be…
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