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As Christians Are Slaughtered, the World Looks Away
Islamists massacred over 200 people in Yelwata, Nigeria—many of them women and children. The media barely mentioned it.
Madeleine Kearns
The American Pope
Pope Leo XIV is almost certainly the first Vicar of Christ to have fond memories of the ’85 Bears.
Matthew Walther
Tourists, Tailors, and the Holy Spirit Descend on Vatican City
‘They are made cardinal, then they get fat,’ said the Vatican’s tailor. ‘I have to take their cassocks out, take their sashes out.’
Josephine de La Bruyère
Can America Survive Without Christianity?
Author Jonathan Rauch joins Bari on Honestly to discuss how the success of liberal democracy depends on a healthy Christianity to support it—and if…
Bari Weiss
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The Patron Saint of Lost Americans
Like so many in this modern, materialistic age, Seraphim Rose lost God. But then a void, a lover, and an Easter service brought him home.
Paul Kingsnorth
Ross Douthat: Why It’s Logical to Believe in God
The New York Times columnist on why miracles are ‘perfectly rational,’ what he’s praying for this Easter, and the contest for Elon Musk’s soul.
Bari Weiss
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America and the Exodus
The story of Passover is not just a Jewish one. Our Founding Fathers were profoundly inspired by it. So was Cecil B. DeMille.
Meir Soloveichik
Hallowed Be Thy App
Since it was launched in 2018, the Christian prayer app Hallow has been downloaded 23 million times. Is this the beginning of a religious revival?
Madeleine Kearns
Cardinal Dolan: The Evils of Antisemitism
Jew-hatred and Christianity are incompatible, writes the Archbishop of New York.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan
A Holy Night in Bethlehem
“Pray for us, father,” he said. “Soon there will be no Christians in the Holy Land.”
Father Patrick Briscoe, O.P.
A Merry Little Chrismukkah
Hanukkah and Christmas don’t just share a calendrical coincidence.
Liel Leibovitz
The Young Catholic Women Bringing Back Veils
A new generation of worshippers is longing for a ‘lost type of Catholicism.’
Madeleine Kearns
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