Magazine

July 11, 2014

v.141 n.12

Article

Take This Chalice—Please

If “chalice” is not required by the Latin language and it runs contrary to liturgical and patristic tradition, why are we saying it?

June 30, 2014

Article

My Father’s Files

My father wanted to remember himself and the world in which he labored. He also wanted to leave a map.

By Dave Byrne

June 30, 2014

Death and Dying

Article

The Larger View

George Eliot’s 'Middlemarch' has always provided something as much like spiritual direction as fiction can offer, and continues to today.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

June 30, 2014

Book Essay

Article

Catholic & Libertarian?

The Ayn Rand libertarianism that Paul Ryan has flirted with is fundamentally incompatible with Catholic teachings. But can Catholics still be economic libertarians?

By Eduardo M. Peñalver

June 30, 2014

Article

By day thirty-seven, he’d broken dozens of rules, so what was one more? He went up and introduced himself to the woman in front of the Soyuz space capsule.

Fiction | Exhibit A

By Liam Callanan

June 30, 2014

Fiction

Article

Letters | Women Religious, Christian Wiman

Readers respond to stories on the LCWR and Christian Wiman.

By The Editors

June 30, 2014

Letters

Article

To know you need help that you cannot somehow conjure up through your own power frees you

Something Is Wrong

By John Garvey

June 30, 2014

Article

Edward St. Aubyn's 'Lost for Words'

With humor at the fore, 'Lost for Words' seems to arrive as a self-imposed respite from investigating the traumas of St. Aubyn's autobiographical Patrick Melrose.

By Dominic Preziosi

June 30, 2014

Books

Article

'An Anxious Age'

The collapse of establishment Protestantism as the American civil religion, Bottum asserts, has left a deep void that sends ripples of unease through the culture.

By Martin E. Marty

June 30, 2014

Books

Article

Poetry From Stephen Burt & Vijay Seshadri

All of us have our own imaginative lives that affect and are affected by our exterior worlds. The poet is someone who finds a language that expresses this truth.

By Lawrence Joseph

June 30, 2014

Books

Article

Poems | By and By & Lullaby Before Birth

By Matthew Buckley Smith

June 30, 2014

Poetry

Article

Poem | Show Time

By Mark Ford

June 30, 2014

Poetry

Article

Last Word: The Paradise Part

Would we be silent at our monastery meals, or would we whisper? Would we hide in our cells or go off on chatty walks in the woods? Both/and, it turned out.

By Nathan Schneider

June 30, 2014

The Last Word

Article

Stillness & Silence in 'Ida'

Austere, quiet, its gravity tempered by bursts of harsh irreverence, 'Ida' grabs your imagination and won’t let go.

By Rand Richards Cooper

June 26, 2014

Movies

Article

Back to Iraq?

The current situation in Iraq may pull the United States back into that country, and thus threatens to undermine Obama’s efforts to reorient American foreign policy.

By The Editors

June 24, 2014

Article

The Duplicity of the Ideologues

Robert Kagan endeavors to beguile while constructing a version of “truth” that ignores inconvenient facts. There’s a name for this technique: It’s called propaganda.

By Andrew J. Bacevich

June 4, 2014

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July 11, 2014

Article

Take This Chalice—Please

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My Father’s Files

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The Larger View

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Catholic & Libertarian?

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Fiction | Exhibit A

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Letters | Women Religious, Christian Wiman

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Something Is Wrong

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Edward St. Aubyn's 'Lost for Words'

Article

'An Anxious Age'

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Poetry From Stephen Burt & Vijay Seshadri

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Poems | By and By & Lullaby Before Birth

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Poem | Show Time

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Last Word: The Paradise Part

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Stillness & Silence in 'Ida'

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Back to Iraq?

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The Duplicity of the Ideologues

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