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Politics

The Ones Ignored

A primer on New York’s recently enacted Reproductive Health Act, which goes beyond Roe in its insistence on the unlimited right to do with one’s body as one pleases
By Paul Moses
February 11, 2019
Religion

Narrowing the Universal Church

Recent debates in higher education over who counts as an “authentic Catholic” have the unintended effect of splintering the universal Body of Christ
By Julia G. Young
February 6, 2019
Culture

Somewhere Else

Mammon can never be God. We need ways of valuing ourselves and our neighbors that are not indexed to the market
By Ian Marcus Corbin
February 10, 2019
Culture

‘Who Is This Stupid God?’

On the ground reporting from the Philippines, where President Rodrigo Duterte’s attacks on the Catholic Church have called forth a renewed sense of solidarity
By Adam Willis
February 8, 2019
Books

Surviving Survivalism

Westover tells the story of her soul, not her accomplishments. Becoming an individual through paideia, she discovers herself as a relational being
By Mike St. Thomas
February 1, 2019
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