In another truncated holiday edition of the First Things daily newsletter, we explore the British communities bucking the secularization trend, a pilgrimage in honor of the forgotten St. Cuthbert, and the perils even the best Christian shepherds face. The full newsletter will be back on Monday.
First Things is launching our first topical newsletter. It’s called The Fourth Watch, and it’s about Catholicism. The questions facing the Catholic Church have-wide reaching implications and spawn no small amount of sensationalism and quick takes. James F. Keating, a theologian at Providence College, will analyze the storms that the Barque of Peter faces and offer, whenever possible, a passage through them.
