The sanctions are harming and killing innocent Iranians right now, and they are poisoning U.S.-Iranian relations for years and possibly decades to come.

Francis’s Amazonpolitik creates a preferential option for the pagans

If Pompeo was looking for a way to make himself more radioactive to U.S. diplomats, he certainly found it.

Trump and his hawkish detractors agree about far more than what divides them.

If the president’s lawyer goes down—and he just might—he could take the whole Trump administration with him.

We were so conditioned to accept authority that we nodded along—at least until recently.

Erdogan was their best friend when the EU needed a place to park millions of unwanted refugees.

He needed the city more than he ever admitted.

Everybody used to be normal and decent to each other. Then something changed

And force many doctors and health providers to violate their consciences.

A Catholic theologian says the Amazon Synod is a sign of the prophesied Great Apostasy

Honestly, he is welcome to it.

Also: Ancient Egyptian coffins, and more.

Kiev has become a drag on Trump, but if we don’t watch out, it could turn into a geopolitical threat to everyone.

Why do those so concerned with economic justice sneer at the country’s poorest region?

If they don’t come to some consensus, their fight for universal coverage won’t survive the general election.

In the age of Twitter, sassy personal attacks have become a method of left-wing cultural enforcement, displacing argument.

The Mythological, the Technological, and the ‘strong gods’ of post-Christianity

As Bloom worried and Gibbon chronicled, nations that lose their creed inevitably struggle. And what then?

‘I have been defeated’ says former Catholic homeschooling mom, whose kids grew up and left the faith

Bret Stephens’ foolish caricature of America only nurses our delusions about ‘the good’ we’ve done in the world.

New Pew research shows the faith’s erosion is picking up pace

The U.S. needs to stop catering to its regional clients by adopting their rivals as ours, and it needs to pursue genuine, sustained engagement with Iran to reduce tensions and to contribute to the stabilization of the region.

Is the president really a genius, and we’re too sinful to see it?

Here’s what our writers and editors are reading this week.

Can the Church take the devil’s money to do God’s work?

The Erdogan letter is Trump’s failed foreign policy in miniature: ignorant, blustering, threatening, and ineffectual.

Also: Why red means red in almost every language, and more.

Fired Vatican Bank employees, the city-state’s police chief forced out, and a blockbuster book on its way

The neocon consensus has brought nothing but disaster. If the president wants to chart another course, we should support him.