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Indigenous London

LOUISE PERRY

From the November issue: The cockneys have mostly left London. Between 2001 and 2021, census records show that the number of “White British” people in London fell from 4.3 million to 3.2 million, at a time when the overall population of the city grew substantially.

Midtown Art for a Midtown Cathedral

JOHN BYRON KUHNER

In the not-so-distant past, St. Patrick’s was a different place: quiet, dark, stony, gray. It felt cave-like and natural, lit only by the dark blue of the stained-glass windows and flickering banks of yellow candles.

Trump’s IVF Policy Could Be Worse, But It’s Still Bad

RYAN T. ANDERSON

The new optional employer fertility insurance benefit is fully customizable, so that an employer could opt to offer a benefit only for ethical fertility treatments like restorative reproductive medicine.

How I Learned to Love Confession

VALERIE STIVERS

From the November issue: My RCIA priest had said that we were required to confess once a year, or any time we’d committed a serious sin. I retained a sense that it was optional and a little weird, something people didn’t really do anymore.

Germany’s Escalating Kulturkampf

ANDREAS LOMBARD

The Jagdschloss Thiergarten in Donaustauf near Regensburg was destroyed by a fire on the night of October 6. Three days later, Antifa claimed responsibility for placing “several incendiary devices” in the building.