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May 19, 2017

v.144 n.9

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Jeremy Irons in 1986’s ‘The Mission’ / Warner Bros.

Feature

What We Can & Cannot Fix

Watching ‘The Mission’ thirty years on: Is there something new to learn?

May 11, 2017

Article

Behold, the Jihad of Freedom

‘America’s Dream Palace’ describes the collaboration between U.S. policymakers largely ignorant of the Middle East and the entities to which they turned for advice

By Andrew J. Bacevich

May 10, 2017

Article

Is the Pope ‘Anti-Jewish’?

No, but here’s why his critics think so

By Philip A. Cunningham

May 8, 2017

Jewish-Christian Relations

Donald Trump / CNS

Article

The King of Debt

A tax plan that saves the Trumps a lot money, and that costs the federal government far more

May 8, 2017

Domestic Affairs

Marine Le Pen in April / CNS

Article

La Nostalgie et l’Oubli

What Le Pen’s supporters would prefer to forget

By Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

May 10, 2017

Foreign Affairs

Poetry

Poems | Hiking All Night, An Ode

Timothy Murphy’s latest collection is Devotions

By Timothy Murphy

May 8, 2017

Poetry

Poem | Twice Last Night I Saw Eternity

“The first time I experienced it in Braille / though I’m 20-20 with glasses and the shell”

By Peter Cooley

May 8, 2017

Poetry

Poem | Pietà in the Living Room

“Mothers possess no gland, no loom of muscle that makes oxygen / So you covered my face with a clear-plastic breast”

By Kyle J. Bassett

May 8, 2017

Article

Letters: Growing Up Trans, Victims of Sin, Dante

Readers respond to articles on transgender issues in the church, the nature of sin, and what Dante thought about salvation.

May 8, 2017

Elmina Castle / Dave Ley

Article

The Door of No Return

Faithful Christians were responsible for Elmina, for St. George’s Castle. They worshipped God in the midst of utter depravity.

By Richard Brown

May 8, 2017

U.S. Catholicism

Domestic Affairs

CNS photo

Article

Women & Children Last

Why Republicans are wrong to treat prenatal care as a luxury

By Agnes R. Howard

May 8, 2017

Domestic Affairs

Neon

Article

‘Beauty and the Beast’ & ‘Colossal'

This is a typical rom-com set-up. But, hey, what about that monster?

By Richard Alleva

May 8, 2017

The University of Notre Dame / ADAWSON8

Article

The Catholic Vision

Hiring for mission is about more than ‘counting Catholics’

By Joshua Hochschild

May 8, 2017

U.S. Catholicism

Higher Education

Image of Samuel Huntington

Article

The Unnamed Behemoth

“The evolving edifice of public intellectualism,” according to Michael C. Desch, rests on a foundation whose cement seems to be returning to sand

May 8, 2017

photoo.uk

Article

Republican Heaven

Taxes, inequality, and the rise of the 0.01 percent

By Charles R. Morris

May 8, 2017

Domestic Affairs

Article

One Thousand and One Appropriations

Paulo Lemos Horta makes clear in 'Marvellous Thieves' that the European translators of Arabian Nights felt free to appropriate like crazy

May 8, 2017

Roger Scruton, photograph by Pete Helme

Article

More than Animals

Roger Scruton maintains that animality is but one aspect of our human nature

By Gary Gutting

May 8, 2017

Secularism and Modernity

Donald Trump & Ronald Reagan, 1982

Article

Free-Market Folly

Donald Trump’s economic program may fit comfortably with free-market ideas, but it conflicts with Catholic social thought

By Charles Wilber

May 8, 2017

Domestic Affairs

CNS photo

Article

The Trump Touch

Is America safer when agents spend hours interrogating an American citizen with no criminal record or terrorist associations?

April 17, 2017

Domestic Affairs

Muslim-Christian Relations

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