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The mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier cries into the crucified Christ depicted on her son’s burial shroud. It echoes the icons here at St. Mikhail Church, a short...

Route 132 along the north shore of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula offers one of the most scenic vistas in North America. To one’s left, the extraordinary St. Lawrence River can...

Many years ago, I wrote a piece for this magazine called “Grim Tales.” At the time, I was a young mother rediscovering the world of children’s literature, deciding what...

Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places where civilization has the most tenuous hold, including Dar es Salaam, Lusaka,...

One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had an uneasy feeling that something was amiss—seriously “off,” in fact, though at...

Dario Amodei wants to give society time to deliberate about artificial intelligence. I am not qualified to judge the merits of the head of Anthropic’s proposal, made in his...

Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s “foreign minister” (Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, to use the official title), visited Moscow from August 24–28, meeting with senior...

During the fall semester of 2013, I began to teach a new course here at Yale: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Even though the course had no track record (and...

St. Paul’s Cathedral has come up with a novel way to fill the pews: It is becoming a concert venue. Under a newly inked agreement, London nightclub Fabric will...

In June 2025 Janet Daby, the Member of Parliament for Lewisham East, started having nightmares: terrible images of death and dying that disturbed her sleep and haunted her conscience....

Most Americans seem to think of the major Protestant denominations as if they were founded with the names we now use. In truth, the names were often forced by...

It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation could stand as a summary...

It came as a shock. The image of a plane disappearing into a building as flames erupt. Then another. Sirens. Morning TV shows superseded by first confused then speechless...

In London this summer, I walked past a pub sign near Trafalgar Square that read “Fully Air Conditioned. Serving Cold Beers.” Turning to my wife, I laughed: “I truly...

Germany finds itself in a strange situation. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is steadily growing in popularity, as shown by its September 6 victory in Sachsen-Anhalt, where it came...