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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Aug 04, 2026
The Man Who Built the Trojan Horse Tourism makes fact seem fiction. I feel confident Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, and I believe it is a great portrait, until I get to the room... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/the-man-who-built-the-trojan-horse/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 31, 2026
Classics v. Classics The furious debate about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has revealed an unexpected fact: Many people take Homer seriously, very seriously. Modifying the canonical epic in the least detail, it appears,... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/classics-v-classics/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 29, 2026
The Summer Reading List: 2026 A 2025 YouGov poll revealed some interesting factoids about Americans’ reading habits—or lack thereof. Forty percent of us didn’t read a book last year. About a quarter of the... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/the-summer-reading-list-2026/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 28, 2026
The Sun Also Rises at 100 The Hemingway style—terse, direct, formidable, in both prose and personal deportment—dominated American literature and the native ideal of manliness for much of the twentieth century. His suicide in 1961,... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/the-sun-also-rises-at-100/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 27, 2026
Who Gets Custody of the Latin Mass? In any messy breakup, there are the inevitable conflagrations over custody of the kids, the dog, the vinyl collection. The parting of ways between the Catholic Church and the... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/who-gets-custody-of-the-latin-mass/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Mass #Church
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 27, 2026
How the Press Lost Public Trust In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Tara Henley joins in to discuss her recent book, The Trust Spiral: Why the Media Needs... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/the-trust-spiral/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 24, 2026
My Four Years at St. John’s College Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will grieve not, rather findStrength in what remains behind. —William Wordsworth, “Ode on... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/my-four-years-at-st-johns-college/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Saint #John
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 23, 2026
The Critic as Artist In this episode, Dana Gioia joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his most recent piece for Portico, “The Last of the Lost Generation.” The... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/the-critic-as-artist/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 22, 2026
Ukraine and the Limits of Dialogue For months now, I have been receiving alarming, early-morning text messages from Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halyč, leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The texts are typically... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/ukraine-and-the-limits-of-dialogue/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Bishop #Church
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 21, 2026
The Founders and the Common Good The dominant public philosophy among American elites is modern liberalism, often referred to merely as “liberalism.” Two beliefs make up liberalism’s core: first, that freedom is, in the words... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/the-founders-and-the-common-good/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 21, 2026
A Rudderless Odyssey There is much to like about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. The movie is visually stunning; the set pieces, from the fall of Troy to the slaughter of the suitors, can... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/a-rudderless-odyssey/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 20, 2026
Malta’s Answer to the Abortion Lobby For almost a decade, abortion activists have had the small Mediterranean country of Malta in their crosshairs. Malta is the European Union’s last pro-life haven; abortion is illegal unless... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/maltas-answer-to-the-abortion-lobby/ #Catholic #FirstThings #ProLife #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 20, 2026
The Dot, The Dash, and Everything Between In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Florence Hazrat joins in to discuss her recent book, On the Mark: From Periods to... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/the-dot-the-dash-and-everything-between/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 17, 2026
All Labor Is Labor The Elizabethan commonplace comparing creative production to pregnancy and birth is baked into the English language. We “conceive” an idea, though some prove “abortive.” A new project or business... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/all-labor-is-labor/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 16, 2026
Judaism Outside History Jews familiar with Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) probably know him first as a hero, only then as a German-­Jewish philosopher. His life and death are the stuff of legend... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/judaism-outside-history/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 16, 2026
The Marxist Who Understood Sex Better than the UMC The United Methodist Church (UMC) has removed Asbury Theological Seminary from its list of institutions approved to train its ministers. Hardly a bastion of right-wing Protestant fundamentalism, Asbury has... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/the-dead-marxist-who-understood-sex-better-than-the-umc/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Church #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 16, 2026
A Celtic Skull in the Museum at La Tène Two-thousand years and more untouched I burnedIn soil’s slow fire. On the beachAbove, ringed by thin, withered trees, the skyRang with the haunted shore bird’s screech. The water’s face... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/a-celtic-skull-in-the-museum-at-la-tene/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 15, 2026
A Jewish Case Against the Naked Public Square When people ask where I intern, I watch their faces carefully. I say: First Things, a journal of religion and public life founded by a Lutheran pastor who soon... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/a-jewish-case-against-the-naked-public-square/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 14, 2026
Are Autonomous Weapons Consistent with Human Rights? What follows is a lightly edited version of the written testimony Camosy prepared for the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing on “Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain: Implications... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/are-autonomous-weapons-consistent-with-human-rights/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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Catholic News @CatholicNews@na.social · Jul 14, 2026
It’s Cool to Love America Again The media would like you to know that the Great American State Fair, which took over the National Mall this month, was not, in fact, great. Snooty social media... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/its-cool-to-love-america-again/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Love #Christian
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