Magazine

May 6, 2016

v.143 n.8

Article

'Eye in the Sky'

The atmosphere of moral agony in Eye in the Sky reflects standard-issue Hollywood sentimentality. Politically, it offers Americans moral justification for drone war.

By Rand Richards Cooper

April 28, 2016

Article

'C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity'

Marsden’s “biography of a book” traces the development of 'Mere Christianity' from a series of BBC radio talks into a religious "antidote for the attention to self."

By Gilbert Meilaender

April 26, 2016

Books

Ethics

Secularism and Modernity

Spirituality

Theology

War and Peace

Article

'Joan Chittister'

A full-length biography was on the minds of neither the author nor the subject met. But Roberts asked Chittister about her personal life. They began at the beginning

By Kathleen Sprows Cummings

April 25, 2016

Article

From Hemingway to Charlie Hebdo

In two new books, Hazareesingh and Bell incorporate American views into the 20th century struggles between republicans and Catholics in France over "basic freedoms"

April 21, 2016

Muslim-Christian Relations

Secularism and Modernity

Terrorism

Theology

War and Peace

Article

'At the Existentialist Café'

Sarah Bakewell’s latest work subjects (mostly French) existentialist philosophers to scrutiny both as thinkers and as human beings marked by their moment in history.

By Paul Lakeland

April 21, 2016

Books

Profiles

Secularism and Modernity

Article

'Zero K'

Lurking beneath the main concerns of 'Zero K' is a story of filial conflict, though moving portrayals of interpersonal relationships are not exactly DeLillo’s thing.

By Dominic Preziosi

April 21, 2016

Article

Ramona the Real

Beverly Cleary captures a child’s perspective in a way that is totally convincing and never condescending, and feels authentic even several decades on.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

April 20, 2016

Books

Columnists

Article

Uncommon Decency

Simon Leys’s Catholic sensibility is never insistent, and never descends into preachiness. As he said of Confucius, sometimes it can be better to stay silent.

April 20, 2016

Article

Poem | Air Waves

A robin, / its bright beak still fledgling-yellow, / stands at the verge of the spatter-pattern

By Marie Ponsot

April 20, 2016

Poetry

Article

The Gifts Reserved for Age

There are multiple Eliotic selves, some more surprising than others, displayed in this magnificent, overwhelming edition.

By William H. Pritchard

April 20, 2016

Book Essay

Books

Article

Letters | Free trade, Catholic women, God’s love

By The Editors

April 20, 2016

Article

Some Exceptions May Apply

Some conservatives tend to confuse fidelity with a one-size-fits-all legalism. If there's one thing you can say about Pope Francis, it's that he's no legalist.

By The Editors

April 19, 2016

U.S. Catholicism

Editorial

Pope Francis

Secularism and Modernity

Synod on the Family

Theology

Article

Bookending a Culture War

Reflecting on the two Notre Dame graduations clearly reveals that the latest rounds of the culture wars have sputtered to an end—and that we need a new way forward.

April 19, 2016

Article

Remember Me

Around the dining room table, paisanas from the old country cut and wove strips of palm into intricate crosses and flowers, and Grandpa, eyes shining, told stories.

By Joan Sauro

March 17, 2016

U.S. Catholicism

The Last Word