Magazine

March 10, 2017

v.144 n.5

Pieter Neefs the Younger - Interior of a Gothic Church with Figures attending Mass / Wikimedia

Article

'I Don't Want That Crap in My Gallery'

Visit art galleries and museums and one thing is obvious: There's no subject not being tackled by one or more artists. Well, maybe one subject: religion

March 6, 2017

Article

Top Heavy

The tax proposals that Donald Trump and the Republicans are offering are heavily weighted toward increasing after-tax incomes for the very wealthiest people.

February 28, 2017

Article

Of Popes & Trumpists

What the brouhaha over Steve Bannon and Cardinal Burke fails to recognize is that the fate of Catholicism is not being decided in Rome or Washington.

By The Editors

February 21, 2017

Donald Trump

U.S. Catholicism

Editorial

Article

'Four Futures'

Can future societies value persons as such, regardless of their economic contributions?

By Frank Pasquale

March 2, 2017

Economy

Article

The Church & Transgender Identity

Transgender identity is difficult to discuss, and not least because each side tends to present it as beyond discussion, an open-and-shut case

By David Cloutier & Luke Timothy Johnson

February 27, 2017

Article

'Toni Erdmann'

Maren Ade's 'Toni Erdmann' is a film that defies easy summary

By Rand Richards Cooper

February 24, 2017

Movies

Paul VI and Joseph Ratzinger / Wikimedia

Article

A Larger Solidarity

Far from being an oddity best ignored, "Populorum progressio" still offers vital resources for the dilemmas and decisions now facing the church.

February 23, 2017

Article

Poem | 'Messenger'

"It was anybody’s son at the door/ in the dripping green slicker/ with the unsigned contract for selling my soul"

By Mary Karr

February 23, 2017

Poetry

Article

Poem | 'Psalmody'

"Rare amalgam of Word and Spirit / structure and energy, / the dance of one and many, / of loss and gain."

By Robert P. Imbelli

February 23, 2017

Poetry

Article

Two Poems

"After two weeks’ absence, the clover is high as a fence. / The weeds are white-tipped frills of grass"

By William Meyer

February 23, 2017

Poetry

Article

Last Word: The Waiting Room

While the Church of the Covenant of the Sacred Heart serves as a haven, Turkey itself can be hard on those forced to make the country their temporary home.

By Dominique Bonessi

February 22, 2017

Article

Letters | Liturgy, ‘Silence,’ etc.

Readers chime in on liturgical issues, Martin Scorsese's faith, and the catholicity of our colleges and universities.

By The Editors

February 22, 2017

Letters

Article

'The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom'

If America has seen itself as China’s big brother, helping it to navigate the currents of modernity, this view was seldom shared by Chinese leaders.

By Nicholas Clifford

February 22, 2017

Foreign Affairs

Article

Reading Dante’s 'Commedia' as Theology

Vittorio Montemaggi's unconventional book argues that, for Dante, human life is a journey toward union with God that must be undertaken with others.

By Griffin Oleynick

February 22, 2017

Books

Poetry

Article

'Dorothy Day'

Echoing Day's own prose, her granddaughter captures the beauty of nature in all its specificity

By Peter Steinfels

February 22, 2017

Books

Social Justice

Article

Catholic Solidarity with Immigrants

Many American Catholics have ancestors who were the beneficiaries of the Immigration Bureau’s advocacy. Will they support the bishops who speak out today?

February 6, 2017