September 2017

Paul Lakeland ruminates on the theology of the imagination

Three philosophers and unlikely coauthors challenge our cultural moment: they opt for mutual understanding over demonization

Does the Catholic novel even truly exist? A lifetime of avid reading assures me that it does

In terms of the red-blue divide, Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Logan Lucky’ probably isn’t going to bring us together. It may well be part of the problem

The failure to thematize Polish anti-Semitism seems an odd and troubling lacuna at Auschwitz

A place of hurt and waiting, shards and splinters, / Auto glass repairs, / Vic, grumpy and grouchy, / tells customers to shut up in his Italian accent.

"And yet he turns back, half a planet taking a long moment / in apparent curiosity at a stranger’s bounty, wondering if / another gift might be in the offing"

Readers reply to the exchange on just war between Peter Steinfels and Gerald Schlabach, and the authors respond.

Within the Catholic Church, the “culture wars” have become the “council wars.” The latest entry in these debates is ‘The Reception of Vatican II’