October 7, 2016

Social Justice

Spirituality

Article

Last Word: A Visible Sign

A mother in the 1960s fights for her daughter with mental disabilities to receive First Communion.

By Miriam Hill

September 26, 2016

Article

Big Sky Men

An outsider’s view of the personal lives and characters of a group of unusual priests in the remote state of Montana.

By Jeffrey Meyers

September 26, 2016

U.S. Catholicism

Religious Life

Article

A Verb, Not a Noun

The place of the term "revelation" in the church needs to be debated. The church cannot eliminate either “revelation” or “word” as metaphors for divine activity.

By Gabriel Moran

September 26, 2016

Vatican II

Article

The Virtue of Staying Put

The provenance of the term “Benedict Option” actually offers at least some hope that it might actually fashion a meeting ground amid U.S. culture wars.

By Gerald W. Schlabach

September 26, 2016

Spirituality

Article

No Time to Waste

The most important moral crisis of the twenty-first century may be a leading priority for Pope Francis, but it barely registers on the U.S. political radar.

September 26, 2016

Article

Voting for People, Not Just Policies

The U.S. bishops' 'Faithful Citizenship' has turned out to be irrelevant to the most pressing moral and practical questions raised by the 2016 presidential contest.

September 26, 2016

Article

Still Point of the Turning World

Mass facing the people has a profound beauty. A view of the priest’s back and elbows isn’t naturally or inevitably going to make anyone think of the Second Coming.

September 23, 2016

Article

Poem | 'Curio'

I am clouded glass, a long time sea-bound / and carried on waves ancient as the day / God made the waters.

By Valerie Wohlfeld

September 23, 2016

Poetry

Article

'Hell or High Water'

"Hell or High Water" breathes new life into familiar materials, dealing out anachronistic juxtapositions while de-romanticizing the iconic figures of the western.

By Rand Richards Cooper

September 22, 2016

Movies

Article

'The Big Question'

Alister McGrath seeks to replace the “science against religion” posture of the new atheists with a more complex paradigm.

September 22, 2016

Article

'Sex Difference in Christian Theology'

Megan K. DeFranza explores theological and biblical resources for thinking about gender beyond Adam and Eve.

September 22, 2016

Sexuality

Article

'Catholic and Mormon'

For Catholics or Mormons utterly ignorant of the other tradition, the book offers an inviting and responsible introduction.

September 22, 2016

Ecumenism

Article

'The Catholic Enlightenment'

Ulrich L. Lehner argues that the perception of Catholicism as unswervingly resistant to the innovations of modernity needs correction.

September 22, 2016

Vatican II

Article

Religion Booknotes: Fall 2016

September 22, 2016

DFID—UK Department for International Development

Article

'Success and Luck'

In 'Success and Luck,' Robert H. Frank explains the human mind is just not designed to think rationally about luck and about how the successful got that way.

September 22, 2016

Article

'You Are What You Love'

In 'You Are What You Love,' James K. A. Smith is concerned the mismatch between our spiritual intentions and our daily habits.

By Leah Libresco

September 22, 2016

Spirituality