Magazine

February 7, 2014

v.141 n.3

Article

Just Warriors, Unjust Wars?

Catholics have special reason to care about Jeff McMahan’s work on the question of just war and the debates it has sparked.

January 27, 2014

Article

Getting On with It

If you doubt the cost of indulging in political pieties rather than political organizing, compare the influence of Occupy Wall Street with the Tea Party.

January 27, 2014

Article

The Art of the Con

No moviemaker since Sturges has made the din of recrimination as funny as Russell does in 'American Hustle,' while Scorcese dazzles though 'Wolf' goes nowhere.

By Richard Alleva

January 27, 2014

Movies

Article

A Hole in the Basket

Nobody seems to believe me, but in my experience the secret to increasing the parish collection is a simple one: Start giving the money away.

By Fr. Nonomen

January 27, 2014

U.S. Catholicism

Religious Life

Article

He Is Who Is

One of David Bentley Hart's deeper points is that the major theistic religions do indeed have something in common when they say “God.”

By Michael Robbins

January 27, 2014

Books

Secularism and Modernity

Theology

Article

Dworkin’s Jisei

'Religion Without God' is a lovely swan song. It is short—it’s based on the Einstein Lectures delivered at the University of Bern in 2011—but eloquent and rich.

By Paul Horwitz

January 27, 2014

Books

Article

Beyond the Cloister

Williams astutely alerts us to Evdokimov’s proposition that the vows of a religious are analogous to Christ’s response to the temptations in the desert.

By Harold Isbell

January 27, 2014

Religious Life

Books

Article

When Martyrdom Isn’t a Metaphor

Not many Christians in the West are aware that in many parts of the world Christians still risk their lives just by going to church to celebrate the birth of Christ.

By Gabriel Said Reynolds

January 27, 2014

Books

Muslim-Christian Relations

Article

Grief Detained

Barnes's broodings are intelligent, often eloquent, and just to the elegiac occasion. But Barnes is also sometimes hard.

By Denis Donoghue

January 27, 2014

Books

Article

The Last Word: Rerouted

I have been rerouted from my natural course toward death. It feels wrong.

By Dolores L. Christie

January 27, 2014

Death and Dying

The Last Word

Article

Letters | Catholic Schools, Catholic Hospitals

Readers respond to Fr. Nonomen's "Rethinking Catholic Schools," and the author replies.

By The Editors

January 27, 2014

Article

At Our Mercy

We have failed utterly to protect our planet and those who share it with us; for Christians, this constitutes a profound break with God

By Elizabeth A. Johnson

January 23, 2014

Article

So Far, So Good

Iran’s nuclear ambitions are a serious problem, but demanding complete Iranian capitulation, either at the negotiating table or on the battlefield, is no solution.

By The Editors

January 22, 2014