Article The Gospel Isn’t Single-Issue In his apostolic exhortation Rejoice and Be Glad, Pope Francis warns against elevating any single social issue above all others By Paul Moses April 12, 2018 Pope Francis Immigration Abortion U.S. Catholicism
Feature ‘Constant in the Struggle’ John’s writing was suffused with a deep and hard-earned Christian faith, but never an unquestioning one By Patrick Jordan April 11, 2018 Spirituality Media
Article Paul Ryan’s Curdled Idealism Paul Ryan will step down from the House speakership as the personification of conservatism’s decline By E. J. Dionne Jr. April 11, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article Gross Distortion David Pilling has a raucous bee in his bonnet over the statistical idiocies of GDP By Charles R. Morris April 11, 2018 Domestic Affairs Economy Books
Article There Are Also Women There Women are usually in the background of papal statements, if they appear at all. Not this time By Rita Ferrone April 10, 2018 Pope Francis Gender
Article On the Mighty River of Convenience We are torn between our priorities as consumers and our values as people By Rand Richards Cooper April 9, 2018 Secularism and Modernity Spirituality Economy
Article Pope Francis’s ‘Gaudete et Exsultate’ The call to holiness is universal, and it is incompatible with individualism, dogmatism, and sectarianism By Massimo Faggioli April 9, 2018 Pope Francis Secularism and Modernity Spirituality Web Exclusive
Article Get Rid of the Clergy We should distinguish between the sacrament of orders, which we still need, and the clerical state, which we would be better off without By Joe Holland April 9, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Bishops
Article A Hard-Earned Detachment This death-haunted and deeply Catholic poetry collection offers hope By Anthony Domestico April 8, 2018 Death and Dying Books Poetry
Article Sleepwalking into Disaster We pay too little attention to the causes, consequences, and persistence of war By Margaret O’Brien Steinfels April 6, 2018 War and Peace Foreign Affairs