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June 16, 2017

v.144 n.11

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Pope Francis with Cardinal-designate Anders Arborelius of Stockholm / CNS photo

Article

Cardinal Virtues

Let’s retire talk about “peripheries”; what’s most interesting about the newest cardinal-designates is their character

By Rita Ferrone

June 13, 2017

Foreign Affairs

Theresa May / CNS

Article

Letter from Great Britain

The world watches Washington, even as Britain faces the burden of reordering its own world in the ongoing wake of 2016

By Margaret Lough

May 31, 2017

Foreign Affairs

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1956 / Wikimedia

Article

The Catholic Imagination, Then & Now

In the days of Fortress Catholicism, Catholic literary things were not as good as people may think; things are not as bad today as they fear

By Paul Baumann

May 20, 2017

U.S. Catholicism

Domestic Affairs

Georges Seurat, Le Bec du Hoc à Grandcamp, 1885

Feature

Hallowing the Gaps

God’s ineffability demands a creative use of language

By Robert M. Pennoyer II

June 14, 2017

Secularism and Modernity

CNS photo

Article

‘This Economy Kills’

The economic ideology favored by people like Arthur Brooks is utterly incompatible with Catholic social teaching; it is a rock of shipwreck.

By Anthony Annett

June 5, 2017

Feature

All my life I have been haunted by Catholic teachings on just war.

The War against Just War

By Peter Steinfels

June 5, 2017

Feature

Just War?

Just-war teaching has distracted Catholics from learning and practicing strategic nonviolence. At times it has excused them from even trying

By Gerald W. Schlabach

May 31, 2017

U.S. Catholicism

Domestic Affairs

Article

Waving & Drowning

‘Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer’ shows how power is certainly seductive, but the seduction is not always sexual

By Richard Alleva

May 31, 2017

Article

Letters | Basic income, human nature, etc.

Readers respond to articles on a guaranteed universal income, human nature, contrasting cardinals, and transgender identity.

May 31, 2017

John Roberts / CNS

Article

With Intent to Suppress

Equal access to the voting booth is in jeopardy

May 30, 2017

Domestic Affairs

Poetry

‘Neck Scarves’

Why didn’t I tell you I hate religion too

May 30, 2017

Poetry

Four Devotional Poems

If I can see everything and find no rest—what will you do for me then?

By E. J. García

May 30, 2017

The Babel Festival Of Literature And Translation

Article

Double Focus

How modern poetry must face history—and what lies beyond history

By Anthony Domestico

May 30, 2017

Article

Without Walls

John F. Kane’s book shows why Jesuit scholar William F. Lynch’s disappearance from the intellectual and cultural scene was as thorough as it was regrettable

By Stephen Schloesser, SJ

May 30, 2017

Article

I Don’t Feel Your Pain

Paul Bloom’s book rejects the assumption that empathy is either a strong motivator of moral goodness or a proper guide to moral decision making

By Stephen J. Pope

May 30, 2017

Article

Dorothy Day’s ‘Second Conversion’?

Who was Fr. John J. Hugo and how might a study of Hugo shed light on the “public theology” that holds sway in American Catholic theology today?

By Patrick Jordan

May 30, 2017

U.S. Catholicism

Duke University

Article

To the University, with Love

Tolerance for intellectual pain is less than it was; so is tolerance for argument

By Paul J. Griffiths

May 18, 2017

Higher Education

Domestic Affairs

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