Kathryn Jean Lopez

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  • Dec 19, 2025
    Well, it’s official. The Vatican has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Timothy Dolan. I’ll confess: Over the last few years, I’ve gotten into the habit of...
  • Dec 12, 2025
    “I’ve had paper cuts that took longer to heal than Erika Kirk.” You may have seen this comment on X in recent days. And yes, by the author of a book titled, If...
  • Dec 4, 2025
    At the same time, conservatives also need to be able to say: It is despicable to call human beings “garbage.” A cabinet secretary also shouldn’t be calling a...
  • Nov 24, 2025
    I had a very disturbing conversation on Capitol Hill earlier this week. I was with some friends, Jewish women who live in the Northeast and who, let’s just say, have seen a few...
  • Nov 11, 2025
    I surrender. I surrender. I surrender. It’s that simple. It’s also one of the most complicated things in the world. We Americans don’t tend to think about surrender...
  • Sep 30, 2025
    New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan has been getting flak for comparing Charlie Kirk to Saint Paul, but those who are incensed over this may be missing the...
  • Sep 26, 2025
    Durbin, the highest-ranking Catholic Democrat, is an example of someone who should know better, who should do better. Years ago, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said that he could not...
  • Sep 11, 2025
    Charlie Kirk is dead. I know you know that. But stop scrolling and clicking and arguing for a few minutes and think about it. If you pray, pray. Really, truly pray. If you are...
  • Sep 8, 2025
    I apologize for Tim Kaine. He’s the senator from Virginia whom the Democrats offered as their vice-presidential candidate not that long ago; he’s presumably one of...
  • Aug 12, 2025
    Can men help restore women’s confidence in them after the worst kind of violence?
  • Aug 5, 2025
    “Do you think she was ready for the wonder of God?” “Of course she was!” On the last Saturday night of July, a group got together virtually for a poetry...
  • Jul 30, 2025
    Stop. Listen. Pray. Make time for God. A Nigerian priest was giving a weekday sermon at a suburban church in New Jersey. The kind of church, architecturally, that doesn’t...
  • Feb 17, 2025
    Donald Trump has gotten the commentariat to speak Latin. It probably wasn’t on your predictions’ list for the second Trump administration. And, yet, comments Vice...
  • Jan 20, 2025
    ‘Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.” George Washington’s Farewell...