On its face, the term obsolete can sound like an insult. We apply it to technologies, ideas, and institutions that fall out of fashion, often with a mocking air (“Okay, boomer”) or a snarl of disgust ...

Meaghan Shields grew up poor in a “Catholic bubble.” The help I received didn’t feel like pity or charity, she writes. It ...

Over the past twenty-two years of my life, having attended Mass almost every week, I have surely heard the phrase “The ...