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March 24, 2017

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Pope Francis greets a Buddhist monk during a November audience with religious leaders at the Vatican / CNS photo

Article

The Dialogue of Fraternity

How the church’s social ethics have formed Pope Francis’s pastoral imagination

By James L. Fredericks

March 21, 2017

Article

Mission before Identity

Calling for “hiring Catholics” can make some Catholics, and many other academic colleagues, nervous

By David O'Brien

March 18, 2017

Continuing the Conversation

Higher Education

Theology

U.S. Catholicism

Article

‘Mozart in the Jungle’

Satire blends with sheer whimsy in Amazon’s delightful “Mozart in the Jungle"

By Celia Wren

March 16, 2017

Television

Media

Article

Another Abu Ghraib?

Sounding the alarm about immigrant detention centers

By Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

March 13, 2017

Article

Jesus Freaks & Donald Trump

DC Talk's “Jesus Freak” articulated the way the evangelical church thought of itself: scorned by mainstream culture and the victim of violence rather than its agent.

March 7, 2017

Feature

The Story of Islam

The basics of a religion that some like to say we’re at war with remain opaque to many Americans

By David Pinault

March 20, 2017

Muslim-Christian Relations

Ecumenism

Middle East

Poetry

Blue Heron

“Shimmering in sunlight glancing from the lake / Poised on stilts, patient for its prey”

By Robert P. Imbelli

March 13, 2017

Poetry

Two Poems by Lou Ella Hickman

“how did you walk, mary / you, graceful one / after Grace came to dwell within you...”

By Lou Ella Hickman

March 13, 2017

Poetry

Article

Last Word | Unchosen Hardships

For all the talk of Catholic guilt, American Catholics get off relatively easy when it comes to fasting

By Lauren Kosa

March 13, 2017

Spirituality

Poetry

From ‘Multum in Parvo’

“I’ve so many transgressions to repent / I am my Pastor’s poster boy for Lent.”

By Timothy Murphy

March 13, 2017

Poetry

Article

Letters | Getting Religion, Castro

Kenneth Woodward responds to the review of his book, and the author replies; a reader comments on the coverage of Castro’s death

By The Editors

March 13, 2017

Letters

Article

‘Paterson’

Here is a movie that embraces banality so pertinaciously that the ordinary becomes nearly mesmerizing

By Richard Alleva

March 13, 2017

Movies

Article

Here All Along

Amir Hussain has set out to prove that Muslims have been at the center of the creation of American popular culture

By James L. Fredericks

March 13, 2017

Domestic Affairs

Article

Hurt into Literature

This first volume of Kafka’s life covers the years just before his creative breakthrough in 1912 with ‘The Judgment’ and ‘The Metamorphosis’

By Jeffrey Meyers

March 13, 2017

Books

Article

In ‘Judas,’ Oz spins a story that might speak to you at night, in a moment of crisis, of transition, at the point when the future you had envisioned for yourself has fallen from view

The First Christian?

By Tzvi Novick

March 13, 2017

Books

Article

Oh the Places We’ll Go

Future Humans takes a sober look at the scientific evidence supporting the claim that humans are continuously evolving and might evolve into a different species.

By Paul Lauritzen

March 8, 2017

Bioethics