The Consolation of Limitation
There are stories already of the ways AI is landing strange, often frightening, roles in human life. AI can make us forget how badly we need to stay rooted in the real.
What Data Cannot Quantify
Are we in the midst of a new Great (Catholic) Awakening, or simple seeing an eddy amidst a secularizing tide?
A Cry of Desperation, a Plea for Love
Physician-assisted suicide, now known as Medical-Aid-in-Dying, has been sold to us as an expression of rationality and autonomy. Perhaps the cry for such a death "is in reality a cry of desperation from the depressed and isolated, in short, the plea for love."
Charity Face-to-Face
The question of borders, immigration, and care for migrants is a heady one, at the moment – one where political loyalties aren’t always playing out as expected, and individual conscience is tending to come into conflict with party duty.
The Desire For Uncompromising Truth
What has Pope Leo recently noted about the relationship between faith and science?
Seeing with a Coherent Moral Vision
The moment we begin to diminish elements of the Gospel, we begin to unravel the whole.
The Church Beyond the West
Pope Leo's recent papal visit to Africa serves as a reminder that the majority of the Catholic Church exists beyond the West.
The Goal of Charity
The “goal” of Christian charity isn’t to try to fix the world; it’s to witness to the love of Jesus.
False Dichotomies
Pope and presidents, wars and words. How are American Catholics (and everyone else) to sort through it all?
Hapless Habits
Gambling can become a big problem, but it's not necessarily wrong in small doses. How are we to think about it?