Article Confederate Heritage Is Nothing to Bragg About In building a military tradition, valorizing heroes is the principal task. But how should we decide who those heroes are? By Martin D. Heli May 31, 2021 War and Peace
Article Bad Inheritances Everybody gets something different from St. Dymphna’s story. For me, it is about familial inheritances: what we can get away from and what we can’t. By B. D. McClay May 28, 2021 Women in the Church Spirituality
A Diminished Thing? Paul Elie addresses Joe Biden’s political strategy, the Church’s stance on LGBT unions and women’s ordination, and the legacy of the abuse crisis. U.S. Catholicism Politics
Article Vaccines for All There are still substantial structural barriers to getting vaccines to more people. By Katie Daniels May 27, 2021 Coronavirus Joe Biden
Article Poem | How to Live “Poor Mal, old pal, dead a decade now, / yet salt and sudden in your boots and gallons, / surveying this disastrous after” By Christian Wiman May 25, 2021 Poetry
Article Poem | Churchyard “The sky / forever full of signs and // surprises like frost at night, / or the sun in the morning.” By Brian Swann May 25, 2021 Poetry
Article Poem | The Phrase “I pause, go on, / knowing this is a way / we’re remembered.” By Nikia Leopold May 25, 2021 Poetry
Article Two Poems by Michael Cadnum “This flock has / no past and no math. / They have no yesterday // and no approaching nightfall.” By Michael Cadnum May 25, 2021 Poetry
Article Letters | The Language of Ministry Readers weigh in on issues of living honestly, the impossibility of utopia, and how poetry can move us. By The Editors May 25, 2021 Letters
Article Keeping It Together Progressive and conservative Catholics should both seek to avoid deepening fractures in the Church. By Paul Baumann May 25, 2021 Bishops Pope Francis U.S. Catholicism