Check out these recent articles from around the web:

Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk by Tom Nichols: “As a private citizen, she can apologize for Assad and Putin to her heart’s content. But as a security risk, Gabbard is a walking Christmas tree of warning lights. If she is nominated to be America’s top intelligence officer, that’s everyone’s business.”

In a grandmother’s last moments, a glimpse of resurrection by Renée Roden: “To love someone who has crossed that river of death is to have your own foothold on the journey—the river seems less dark, the other shore a bit clearer and lighter. Perhaps I now sense in death—like Good Friday—a glimpse of resurrection.”

Go Slow and Repair Things by Tish Harrison Warren: “We’re facing huge problems in our culture—problems an election alone can’t solve. But by God’s grace, we can do the small, daily work of repair.”

The Unspoken Grief of Never Becoming a Grandparent by Catherine Pearson: “It’s a kind of grief, she said, that our culture tends not to recognize, and that people don’t know how to talk about.”

Restorative Partners’ programs help criminal offenders make fresh start by Margaret Plevak: “Plans first address basic needs such as a place to live, a job and documents needed to work, she said. Programs address issues that include anger management, domestic violence prevention and substance abuse courses. A basic finances class helps people put together a budget, open a bank account, understand credit or start a small business.”

This All Saints’ Day, a tribute to Catholicism’s ‘nameless companions’ by Elise Ureneck: “Most of what I do now is hidden from view, even from the men in my family. But one person knows. And he knows the names of all the saints’ companions. And now that is enough.”

Why Can’t We Talk to Each Other Anymore? by Kaitlyn Schiess: “We need to remember that we are finite creatures whose resources will be depleted by tense and difficult conversations—and to discern where those resources will be best spent. We should consider whether the energy we are exerting trying to persuade strangers on the internet could be conserved for the sake of our physical neighbors.”

Confessions of a Republican Exile by David Brooks: “In Blue World, I find plenty of people who are fighting against all the things I don’t like about Blue World. In Red World, however, far fewer people are fighting against what’s gone wrong with the party.”

Inside the Carjacking Crisis by Jamie Thompson: “In Washington, the number of carjackings more than doubled from 2019 to 2020, from 152 to 360, and then kept climbing—to 484 in 2022, and 958 in 2023.”

In year since Hamas’ pogrom against Jews, we’ve seen antisemitism on the rise by MSW: “Antisemitism is Western culture’s recessive, cancerous gene. We thought it was largely dead after the 20th century yielded its most obvious moral lessons. We were wrong.”

5 reasons why Catholics should be wary of Project 2025 by Stephen Schneck: “Moreover, the inherent worldview that knits together the project’s whole is a vision for America that may well be corrosive to our faith’s understanding of the dignity of the human person as imago Dei and to our Catholic ideal for the social order as a community oriented toward the common good of all as measured by the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable among us.”

Nearly half of Catholics in NCR poll see affordable housing as key election issue by Brian Fraga: “Affordable housing ranked fifth as the most important issue to the polled Catholic voters, behind only the economy, immigration, health care and taxes. Among young adult Catholics ages 18-29, about 56% identified affordable housing among their most important issues.”