Hearts Seek More Than Politics

And the signs are everywhere.

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Pope Leo XIV gestures ahead of a Holy Mass presided over by Metropolitan Archbishop of Zagreb Drazen Kutlesa at the Vatican, October 7, 2025.

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‘Get married. Have children. Build a legacy. Pass down your values. Pursue the eternal. Seek true joy.”

The Heritage Foundation has this on a banner on the side of its headquarters on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. Many people nowadays might think that to encourage men and women to marry — and to marry while young — is backward, but to many others it sounds like hope.

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.

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