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Top First Things News

Supreme Court sides with Catholic Charities in religious-rights case over unemployment taxes

US Supreme Court · Wisconsin

Supreme Court sides with Catholic Charities in religious-rights case over unemployment taxes

54% Center coverage: 132 sources

What US Adults Think About Pope Leo XIV, According to a New AP-NORC Poll

Pope Leo XIV · United States

What US Adults Think About Pope Leo XIV, According to a New AP-NORC Poll

49% Center coverage: 43 sources

Who’s Winning the Trump vs. Newsom Fight? Polling Indicates a Clear Winner

Donald Trump · California

Who’s Winning the Trump vs. Newsom Fight? Polling Indicates a Clear Winner

54% Center coverage: 13 sources

CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten said that California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s name has been searched more than “ever before” since the governor has feuded with President Donald Trump over the immigration protests across Los Angeles.See the Story

Bishop Martin Is Out of Touch - First Things

100% Right coverage: 6 sources

When Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte drafted sweeping restrictions on traditional liturgical practices—including Latin, altar rails, and even the St. Michael Prayer—it wasn’t merely a localized controversy. It was a flare-up in a much broader ecclesial conflict: one that pits the episcopal mandates of one bishop against the organic Catholic sensibilities of the faithful in the pews. The reaction has been loud and almost univers…Vatican · Charlotte See the Story

Yes, It’s Our War, Too - First Things

100% Right coverage: 2 sources

In late May, Trump administration officials at the highest level, frustrated by what they regard as Vladimir Putin’s incomprehensible obstreperousness over his war on Ukraine, suggested that their patience was running out, after which the United States—which has not approved further military supplies for Ukraine in months—would leave the combatants to their own devices. “It’s not our war,” was the mantra of the day. May I please dissent? Of cou…Vladimir Putin · Ukraine See the Story

The Comic Trinity of Nicaea - First Things

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

The year 2025 marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, convened by Emperor Constantine I to resolve the Arian controversy. The Creed hammered out in the fourth century is the bedrock of Christian convictions about the Triune God. Sunday next is Trinity Sunday. All in all, it’s a good time to reflect on the import of the church’s unique confession that the living God is Father, Son, and Spirit. To see one facet of that confession, …Read Article

Why Twain Endures - First Things

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

Mark Twainby ron chernowpenguin, 1,200 pages, $45 When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Sam Clemens (not yet “Mark Twain”) didn’t know where to stand. He was twenty-five years old, a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River—a job he’d obtained by paying an experienced pilot $500 to train him. As a boy, Clemens had “craved attention,” writes Ron Chernow in this hefty biography, “and nobody drew more than the pilot, who wore fancy duds and en…Civil War · Hannibal Read Article

Glenn Greenwald Is Not a Victim - First Things

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

In a scene from the 1961 British neo-noir film Victim, four gay men are having a conversation about private morality and public norms. All of them are being extorted...Glenn Greenwald Read Article

Zoning Out - First Things

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

Stuck:How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunityby yoni appelbaumrandom house, 320 pages, $32 Disposable:America’s Contempt for the Underclassby sarah jonesavid reader, 304 pages, $30 In an era in which the American dream slips ever further from the grasp of the common man, these two books seek the causes. What are the roots, both authors ask, of the economic stagnation of the American working class? Sarah Jon…United States · United States Read Article

Catholic Ireland’s Dead and Gone - First Things

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

One hundred years ago today, W. B. Yeats, poet, senator of the Irish Free State, and proud member of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy, rose to his feet on the Senate floor and expressed his ringing opposition to legislation that would ban divorce. “I think it is tragic that within three years of this country gaining its independence we should be discussing a measure which a minority of this nation considers to be grossly oppressive. . . . W…Ireland · Ireland Read Article

The Problem with N. T. Wright’s Abortion Remarks - First Things

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

Anglican theologian and former bishop of Durham N. T. Wright has landed himself in hot water following remarks that abortion is acceptable in “some circumstances,” such as rape, incest, or disability. This should not have been a total surprise; Wright weighed in a year ago on American politics to bemoan U.S. conservatives who defend gun rights and attack abortion, describing them as “powerful men” trying to “tell women what they could and could …Durham, England · Durham Read Article

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