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Volodymyr Zelenskyy · KharkivPope Leo XIV’s spiritual lodestar is St. Augustine. In his first months in office, the Holy Father summoned the Church to pray, fast, and work for an end to the twenty-first century’s wars. That spiritual orientation and that summons invite us to consider what “peace” is possible in this world. In his masterpiece, The City of God, the great Augustine defined “peace” as tranquillitas ordinis, the “tranquility of order.” This is not the peace of …See the Story
Ukraine and a Peace Worthy of the Name - First Things
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United States · United StatesSomeone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.” When Franz Kafka wrote the opening line of his famous story The Trial a century ago, the clerical sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church was a long way off. Yet Josef K.’s tragic fate parallels the experience of many Catholic priests in twenty-first-century America. Hyperbole? Think again. An elderly priest, still hard at work as past…See the Story
A Solution to a Kafkaesque Clerical Conundrum - First Things
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United States · United States“You are my creator, but I am your master;—obey!”—the monster to Dr. Frankenstein How should Christians, in light of their faith, think about the recent explosion in the application of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and other rapidly advancing technologies? This was the question foremost on the minds of many of us who attended First Things’ recent Intellectual Retreat, entitled “Faith in a Technological Age.” Because First Things is mos…See the Story
Faith Before Technology - First Things
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