Environment

Article

Speaking Love to Power

Theodore Roszak’s work was more than an apologia for 60s counterculture. It was one of the era’s most impassioned attempts to revitalize the utopian imagination.

By Eugene McCarraher

February 4, 2020

Education

Social Justice

War and Peace

Secularism and Modernity

Environment

Article

Australia on Fire

As their country burns, tens of thousands of Australians have taken to the streets to protest the government’s response and its inaction in combating global warming.

By Regina Munch

February 3, 2020

Environment

Foreign Affairs

Feature

A Cathedral Not Made by Hands

In an old-growth forest, everything is connected. No individual plant or animal, and indeed no species, is an island. As Pope Francis warns, we should pay attention.

December 30, 2019

Article

Feathers

What we find outside are physical manifestations of the holy, representative of the sloughing off of old skin, the salt of blood and the sea, signs of the divine.

December 23, 2019

Against the Machine

What is a home? And what happens when old patterns of life break down? British writer and former environmental activist Paul Kingsnorth grapples with these questions, and shares his responses.

Article

Still Lives

Two large-scale projects by contemporary artists help us see animals as individuals with faces, names, and stories of their own.

November 29, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

In the Time of Pandemic

The coronavirus crisis will likely demand the kind of collective sacrifice not seen since World War II. It will also challenge how we live together in society.

By The Editors

March 19, 2020

Religion

Living in Isolation

Even if we cannot get to the Eucharist, we can still enact symbols of communion to fight the destructive effects of isolation.

By Timothy Radcliffe

March 27, 2020

Culture

An Act of Service

Quarantine during a pandemic is not demonic. Few Christians would ask for this cup, but we must drink it—to serve God by serving our neighbors.

By Jared Lucky

March 25, 2020

Books

God of the Continental Philosophers

The fit between phenomenology and Catholic philosophy was never perfect. Thus it could appeal to both Catholic and secular philosophers.

By Sarah Shortall

February 28, 2020

Books

Nothing Left Worth Saving

Set in a miserable dystopia, Houellebecq’s latest novel is both thought-provoking and wearying, fronted by a hypercynical yet dangerously nostalgic narrator.

By Phil Klay

February 27, 2020

Collections

The American Parish Today

The U.S. church is not so much in decline as undergoing a profound transition, a reality we can and should joyfully embrace.

By The Editors

March 27, 2020