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@CatholicNews@na.social · Apr 13, 2026
Catholic Bishops’ Empty Moralizing The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops made an ill-considered intervention in the legal battle over birthright citizenship. After taking office in 2025, Donald Trump issued an executive order... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/catholic-bishops-empty-moralizing/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Bishop #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Apr 13, 2026
God and Man at MIT The pamphleteers are hard to miss. They stand in front of the big doors of Lobby 7, MIT’s main entrance, waving, preaching, and flagging down passersby with all the... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/god-and-man-at-mit/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Apr 13, 2026
Ratzinger in the Whirlwind Joseph Ratzinger did not fade into obscurity when he retired to a life of prayer inside the Vatican walls in 2013. On the contrary, his work remains as influential as ever... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/ratzinger-in-the-whirlwind/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Vatican #Prayer
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Apr 13, 2026
The Myth of the Independent Girlboss Is the independent girlboss dead? Maybe she never existed to begin with. The release of Lindy West’s latest cringeworthy memoir, Adult Braces—about how her husband out-woked her into becoming... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/the-myth-of-the-independent-girlboss/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Apr 13, 2026
Return of the Nobles Here, perhaps, is the greatest problem we face these days: Everything is full. Saunter over to your favorite bar for that longed-for bone-dry martini, and the waiter will inform... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/return-of-the-nobles/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Apr 13, 2026
Finding a Pulse The 2020 publication of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self established Carl Trueman as one of the most incisive commentators on the pathologies of the late modern condition... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/finding-a-pulse/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Apr 09, 2026
The Sexual Abuse Crisis Is a Law Crisis (ft. Michael Mazza) In this episode, Michael J. Mazza joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “Where the Dallas Charter Went Wrong,” from the March... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/the-sexual-abuse-crisis-is-law-crisis-ft-michael-mazza/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Apr 08, 2026
What the Wall Street Journal Didn’t Print On March 21, the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy profile of the pope as its “Saturday Essay.” The subtitle—“Pope Leo XIV pushes back against President Trump. Can the... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/what-the-wall-street-journal-didnt-print/ #Catholic #FirstThings #PopeLeo #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Apr 06, 2026
Pitch for a Catholic Novel Imagine a middle-aged white man in good clothes waiting for a morning train at a station of the Long Island Railroad. He appears at ease, even a little self-satisfied.... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/pitch-for-a-catholic-novel/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Apr 03, 2026
Canada’s Offensive Secularism On March 25, the Canadian House of Commons voted to repeal the good faith religious opinion defense in the Criminal Code. The defense has been there since 1970. It... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/canadas-offensive-secularism/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Faith #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Apr 03, 2026
Protecting Kids Online Doesn’t Threaten Speech or Parental Rights Two misconceptions have been circulating since last week’s landmark ruling in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., which found Meta and YouTube liable for harms to an individual plaintiff: First,... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/protecting-kids-online-doesnt-threaten-speech-or-parental-rights/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Mar 09, 2026
War Without Limits? Does the U.S.-Israel assault on Iran fill the criteria of Christian just war theory? A number of observers have asked the question, including R. R. Reno, and given inconclusive... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/war-without-limits/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Mar 09, 2026
Lou Holtz and Our Lady on the Dome Lou Holtz hated to lose at football. Texas A&M’s 35–10 victory over his Notre Dame team in the 1988 Cotton Bowl deeply discouraged him. His team’s 8–4 record was... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/lou-holtz-and-our-lady-on-the-dome/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Mar 09, 2026
Antoni Gaudí’s Icon of the Universe 2026 marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Antoni Gaudí, the great medievalist-modernist architect from Catalonia. Barcelona is celebrating in a variety of ways, from a commemorative Mass... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/antoni-gaudis-icon-of-the-universe/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Mass #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Feb 27, 2026
How Secularization Happens Way back in the day, when Elon Musk stalked the halls of the federal bureaucracy swinging his giant, if metaphorical, chainsaw, we learned a lot about the U.S. Agency... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/how-secularization-happens/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Feb 26, 2026
A Declaration of American Dignity The State of the Union message to Congress is mandated in the Constitution. But it does not mandate what it has become: an annual spectacle that is a sort... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/a-declaration-of-american-dignity/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Feb 25, 2026
The Casaroli Myth vs. the Historical Record Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, Vatican secretary of state from 1979 to 1990—and before that, the architect and chief diplomatic agent of the Ostpolitik of Pope Paul VI—initially played hard to... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/the-casaroli-myth-vs-the-historical-record/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Vatican #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Feb 12, 2026
The Twisted Consequences of Chatbots In December last year, the autonomous robotaxi firm Waymo took a notable victory lap. The occasion was an independent analysis of Waymo’s safety record based on data from nearly... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/the-twisted-consequences-of-chatbots/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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@CatholicNews@na.social · Feb 06, 2026
Uncovering the Real Melania Melania, Brett Ratner’s documentary following the first lady of 2017–2020 around as she gets ready to become first lady again in January 2025, is in some ways The Passion... 🔗 https://firstthings.com/uncovering-the-real-melania/ #Catholic #FirstThings #Christian
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