Letters to the Editor: March 2026

Pornographies of Power... Modern Womanhood & Its Archetypes... A False Attribution?... In Memoriam... Breaking the Code

The News You May Have Missed: March 2026

Sons of Thunder... Death Defying... The Hangman Cometh... Outlawned... A Stroll Down Penny Lane... Blazing Saddles... Stuffed Menace... and more

Yes, AI Is a Tool, but It Is So Much More

INSTRUMENTAL RATIONALITY & HUMAN LONGING

Christopher M. Reilly

The technology that makes its use possible is in the background, a “black box” that is barely perceptible and poorly understood even by the technicians who design it.

St. Helena’s Pursuits

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #58

Christopher Gawley

Her resolve to raise Constantine as a warrior son, and her gradual understanding and acceptance of Christianity, prepare her for the discovery of the True Cross.

Kessler’s World

CULTURAL COUNTERPOINT

Jason M. Morgan

We produced all manner of distractions and then learned how to combine and amplify them until — voilà — those distractions became “intelligent” and took over our psyches.

Is President Trump Really Pro-Life?

COVENANT & CIVILIZATION

Marcus Peter

Christian hope never rests on political administrations or party platforms. It rests on Jesus Christ. The political fight, therefore, must be rooted in a deeper renewal.

On Fundamentalist Objections to “Repetitious” Prayer

GUEST COLUMN

David Ross

Nature itself teaches us that repetition is the prayer, the liturgy, the calling forth and response, the rhythm of the cosmos.

Possessed by an Alien Philosophy

Thomas Storck

In our unconscious reactions, we too privilege the pronouncements of modern science and regard other types of knowledge as, at best, secondary.

Know Thine Enemy

Christopher Beiting

The Devil cannot defeat Christians by persecuting them. The only way he wins is by convincing us to abandon the truth or to give up the good fight.

Briefly Reviewed: March 2026

Religions and Communism: André Scrima’s Ecumenical Activities Reflected in Securitate Files... Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen: Convert Maker... Taking Religion Seriously