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‘As an Emerald Is Green’

‘As an Emerald Is Green’ “God loves, not as I love, but as an emerald is green. And I too, if I were in a state of perfection, would love as an emerald is green. I would be an impersonal person.” —Simone Weil There is something immediately attractive about the French mystic Simone Weil’s plea in her notebooks that she might learn to love “as an emerald is green”: to achieve a love that is as steady, unconscious, and enduring as a color. The green profusion of nature is both unwavering and imp...

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A Boomer, But An Augustinian: On Magnifica Humanitas

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, begins with the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9). Babel represents the grandiosity of. The post A Boomer, But An Augustinian: On Magnifica Humanitas appeared first on First Things

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Society

How Commercial Surrogacy Targets Military Families

Military wives constitute less than 1 percent of the American population, and they make up between 15 and 20 percent of the women paid to gestate other people’s children. The post How Commercial Surrogacy Targets Military Families appeared first on First Things

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Politics

Same-Sex Marriage and the Degradation of European Law

Until recently, Poland’s definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman seemed inviolable, for at least two reasons. First, Article 18 of the Polish Constitution. The post Same-Sex Marriage and the Degradation of European Law appeared first on First Things

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The Inertia of Russia’s War

The article explores the persistent and unyielding nature of Russia's military campaign, analyzing the factors contributing to its ongoing conflict and the implications for global stability.

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