I asked my fellow Gen-Xers on staff to reflect on this trend, and what may be contributing to it.

Trump skips ‘The Tonight Show Starring Donald Trump’

Pope Francis has announced a commission to identify new martyrs, and in its latest report, Open Doors International has identified 76 countries where Christians suffer “high and extreme levels of persecution.”

Cardinal Raymond Burke has written in the preface to a new book that Pope Francis is risking confusion and even schism in leading the upcoming Synod on Synodality in Rome.

Pope Francis’ clash with the vicar of Rome says a lot about his approach to reform.

I don’t really think R.F.K. will win the election, but I think this election will be marked by historic levels of incoherence and incongruence, and motivated chiefly by exhaustion and fear.