Article The Standoff Over Women’s Ordination The Church needs to give women decision-making authority, but ordination may not be the only—or indeed the most successful—path to achieve that end. By Paul Baumann July 13, 2021 Women in the Church
Article Ancient, But Ever New Reading important texts in the original language is rarely a staid endeavor, but rather an unsettling intellectual challenge. By Cathleen Kaveny July 12, 2021 Books Culture Higher Education
Article Iconoclasm 2.0 ISIS’s 2015 destruction of Iraqi sculptures raises broader questions about the fraught relationship between politics, religion, and technology. By Mahri Leonard-Fleckman July 11, 2021 Middle East Foreign Affairs Nonfiction
Article Still Unaccommodated Disrupting and repairing the structural inequalities in Church institutions is not easy, and often not welcome. By Brett C. Hoover July 10, 2021 Latin America U.S. Catholicism The American Parish Today
Article The Eviction Crisis President Biden has repeatedly said that “housing is a human right.” He will now have a chance to show the country he means it. By Griffin Oleynick July 9, 2021 Joe Biden Coronavirus
Article No More Blank Checks The House is repealing the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force. But other AUMFs remain in place, and those, too, must go. By Regina Munch July 8, 2021 War and Peace Joe Biden Middle East
Article Poem | The Sum of Us “Outliving Eden and its myths, / we find in space what / saves us.” By Samuel Hazo July 7, 2021 Poetry
Article Two Poems by Michael Miller “In a town beyond / The mountains, we live / In the ripeness of old age” By Michael Miller July 7, 2021 Poetry
Article Poem | Kumquat “Might I be able to swallow this / fruit of spite? / Might I like it?” By Danielle Chapman July 7, 2021 Poetry
Article Two Poems by Don Barkin “In autumn / gusts of paper-shuffling in lofty offices / will roil a lawn like God’s face on the waters.” By Don Barkin July 7, 2021 Poetry
