I’m reminded of a bold assertion, made by my Tablet colleague Liel Liebovitz, on America magazine’s Jesuitical podcast: “The [Catholic] Church is the only — the last — remaining bulwark for human dignity and freedom in this world. It’s our last line of defense. We have no other.” Liel, I should mention, is Jewish. Even if he were the only non-Catholic in all of human history to say this of the Catholic Church, should we not be profoundly humbled and take such enormous trust with the utmost seriousness?
—Maggie Phillips, Is Catholicism ‘Cool’ Now?, National Review, 5.25.2025
