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Because there is no Christianity without Judaism, we should first stand in solidarity with those who, as Vatican II taught, were the first to receive God’s promises: promises of which God has never repented.

It is a privilege to read each day online and each month in print the compelling, orderly prose of some of the sharpest critics of the state of religion and public life today.

Pope Francis is still the Vicar of Christ—even if he appears to have collapsed in on himself.

The purpose of Mere Natural Law was to bring natural law down out of the clouds, to show how it bears in very precise and concrete ways on such matters as the regulation of speech.

Benedict XVI chose both faith in God and in man and the harmony between faith and reason. 

Kevin Vallier joins the podcast to discuss his new book All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism.

Supporting First Things ensures that the magazine will continue to thrive as something present and real and good. 

These are the books that swam most readily into consciousness.

The military general led a nationalist revolt against Spain’s democratic republic from 1936-1939, executing 150,000 of his opponents

Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Rabbi Mark Gottlieb to talk about his article, “Pagan Hamas” from January 2024.