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The Love Society and Its Enemies

R. R. Reno

From the print edition: 
Karl Popper promoted an “open society.” We would be better served by a love society. More

Francis in Full

Robert Barron

Of all of the popes in my lifetime, Francis is, by far, the one I knew the best. More

The Last Modern Pope

Dan Hitchens

The Francis years have the unmistakable sense of an ending, of a last hurrah. More

A Classical Insurgency

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

 
 
Classical Greek and Latin have been sacrificed on the altars of progress and technology. More

Letters from Rome—The Interregnum

Xavier Rynne II


The second letter from our continuing series of theological journalism. More

Pope Francis, Trad Icon

Sohrab Ahmari

 
 

Too often, the trads couldn’t glimpse Francis’s rebuke of post-Enlightenment modernity. More

Pope Francis and the Vatican Deep State

Mary Ann Glendon


The Holy See is in dire financial straits, with a deficit now estimated at $87 million. More

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