Vatican MediaPope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Dec. 20, 2025. The letter closes with a focus on vocations and the need for both prayer and …
Diocese of AustinPope Leo XIV appointed Monsignor James A. Misko, a priest of the Diocese of Austin, Texas, as the next bishop of Tucson, Arizona, on Dec. 22, 2025. In …
From the editor’s desk: In October, Compact published a provocative essay by Helen Andrews titled “The Great Feminization” in which she argued that cancel culture is essentially feminine: “Cancel culture is …
Josie Luetke: The sympathetic protagonist trotted out by pro-choicers is the teenager who accidentally gets knocked up. Think Ellen Page in Juno or Shailene Woodley in The Secret Life of …
Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life College basketball has lost one of its impressive figures, and no, it wasn’t a lean, mean, dunking machine — it was a …
Rory Leishman: In yet another deeply disturbing development in the rapidly evolving science of in vitro fertilization (IVF), Professor Shoukrhat Mitalipov of the Oregon Health and Science University announced in …
Seek the star. Two recent books draw on Eastern Christian spirituality to address healing and the transformation of the human heart.
In 1901, Gilbert Keith Chesterton married Frances Alice Blogg. As the Catholic world knows now, Chesterton was a prolific thinker and writer who operated through genius more than well-organized habits, …
There is a specific virtue of running a household well. For me, discovering it was one of the great fruits of studying ancient and medieval thinking. According to Aristotle and …
During my graduate studies, I took a long tour through modern and post-modern social philosophy. This included thinkers such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Descartes, Bacon, Rousseau, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and …
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