Article Letter from Rome The parallel legitimacy of the non-reformed and reformed liturgies has caused and perpetuated confusion and division in the church. How did this happen? By Robert Mickens March 20, 2017 Letter from Rome Pope John Paul II Pope Francis Pope Benedict XVI Liturgy
Feature The Story of Islam The basics of a religion that some like to say we’re at war with remain opaque to many Americans By David Pinault March 20, 2017 Muslim-Christian Relations Ecumenism Middle East
Article Mission before Identity Calling for “hiring Catholics” can make some Catholics, and many other academic colleagues, nervous By David O'Brien March 18, 2017 Continuing the Conversation Higher Education Theology U.S. Catholicism
Article ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Satire blends with sheer whimsy in Amazon’s delightful “Mozart in the Jungle" By Celia Wren March 16, 2017 Television Media
Feature Detachment Plan America has abandoned biblical Christianity, Rod Dreher writes in ‘The Benedict Option,’ so drastic action is required By Paul Baumann March 16, 2017 Secularism and Modernity Books
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Article Frank Harris’s ‘n-Word Project’ Compiling a social history of a fraught expression By Rand Richards Cooper March 14, 2017 Race Domestic Affairs
Article What Women Want ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ can still tell us a lot about Catholicism & feminism By Cathleen Kaveny March 14, 2017 Pope John Paul II Media Television Sexuality
Poetry Blue Heron “Shimmering in sunlight glancing from the lake / Poised on stilts, patient for its prey” By Robert P. Imbelli March 13, 2017 Poetry
Poetry Two Poems by Lou Ella Hickman “how did you walk, mary / you, graceful one / after Grace came to dwell within you...” By Lou Ella Hickman March 13, 2017 Poetry