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Why We Came

We asked you to tell us your stories of why you came, left, or stayed in the church. In this final installment, two readers share their conversion to Catholicism

January 17, 2019

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Building Bridges at the Border

Disappointed after President Trump’s visit to Texas, Sr. Norma Pimentel urges Americans to stop demonizing both immigrants and border officers

By John Gehring

January 15, 2019

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The PA Grand-Jury Report: Not What It Seems

The grand-jury report does not substantiate the prevailing script about how bishops let predators get away with committing and recommitting their crimes

By Peter Steinfels

January 14, 2019

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January 25, 2019

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A Gift, Not a Guilt Trip

What if, instead of thinking about Christ’s baptism in terms of original sin, we followed St. Cyril’s lead in celebrating the breath of the Spirit?

By Gregory K. Hillis

January 12, 2019

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Bookmarks

How to write about the lives of women? In three recent books, formal inventiveness mirrors the idiosyncrasies of the very biographies they narrate

By Anthony Domestico

January 11, 2019

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Why We Left

We asked you to tell us your stories of why you came, left, or stayed in the church. In this installment, three readers explain why they left

January 9, 2019

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Jupiter in Eclipse

The protests of the Yellow Vest movement are rooted not in President Macron’s failure to explain his policies, but rather in their fundamental injustice

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January 7, 2019

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The Advent of Freedom

Advent is supposed to be a hopeful time of expectation. But this December, I sat in a hospice room waiting for my mother to die

By John Gehring

December 23, 2018

Religion

Economics as if Theology Mattered

For the church to truly transform global economic life, it needs to practice principles of self-giving, mutuality, and solidarity at the local level

By Daniel K. Finn

December 19, 2018

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Complicated Sounds

A freewheeling memoir from the 1940s explores the underground world of jazz music, forcefully probing both class consciousness and racial identity

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Christmas Critics

Smart reading suggestions for the 2018 holiday season

December 25, 2018

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A Literary Omnivore’s Dilemma

When it comes to reading, I am widely, not indiscriminately, enthusiastic. Winnowing down the list to just the titles below has been a challenge

By Anthony Domestico

December 22, 2018

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The Blackberry Patch

A short story from a new edition of Andre Dubus's fiction.

October 4, 2018

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