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Rooting Out the Weeds

Megan Basham

First Things remains relevant by focusing on the eternal, not the fashionable. More

Angel of New York

John Byron Kuhner

From the print edition:
What does it say about our city, that the story of the pool of Bethesda should be enshrined at its heart? More

Walking the Synodal Way . . . Off a Cliff

Raymond J. de Souza

The “worldliness” that the pope frequently con-demns prevails through-out the Instrumentum Laboris. More

Cormac McCarthy’s Miracle

Kris Dougherty


McCarthy has left an indelible mark in the canon of American letters. More

Addiction is the Disease of Desire

Michael W. Clune


Our culture’s idolization of desire has made it difficult or impossible to accept the truth about addiction. More

Synod 2023: Reversing Vatican II?

George Weigel


Vatican II’s Christocentric theology of the Church is notably absent from the working document for the Synod on Synodality. More

The Pleasure of Walking

John Wilson

 
I treasure my walks. But I also like to read about walking, a very different sort of “traveling.” More

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