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525 BC. The philosopher Thales goes out to gaze at the stars, walking with his neck craned up. He does not see the ditch before him and falls in. A young Thracian woman passes by and mocks him for paying attention to the stars rather than what lies at his feet. Looking up past her, he responds that “at least I can see the stars.”

2026 AD. A young Thracian woman rushes...


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Miss Cather is not a Catholic, yet certainly no Catholic American writer that I know of has ever written so many pages steeped in spiritual knowledge and understanding of Catholic motives and so sympathetically illustrative of the wonder and beauty of Catholic mysteries as she has done in this book.
—Michael Williams, “Willa Cather’s Masterpiece,” Commonweal


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The Shepherd of Hermas is a treasured text from the second century that some early Christians even considered part of Sacred Scripture. In the third section, the author recounts a series of similitudes or visions that are interpreted for him by a Shepherd, a Christ-figure. The second vision came to mind as I read Leah Sargeant’s


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At the one-year anniversary of the election of Pope Leo XIV, I would like to reflect on some of the key themes of his papacy thus far. The intention is not an exhaustive survey of all of his actions—I leave that to the vaticanisti who follow his day-to-day doings. I will focus mostly on what emerges from magisterial documents, which have more weight than other more i...


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Of all the terms to describe what ails nurses, physicians, and other clinicians in modern health care systems, none is more enduring than “burnout.” Burnout is unquestionably a “signature affliction” of modern health care practice. When


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