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October 6, 2017

v.144 n.16

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Article

Reunion!

If worker-justice advocates want a dialogue with red America, Catholic social action is one of the few vehicles left.

By Clayton Sinyai

October 2, 2017

Social Justice

Bishops

Article

Ancient Identities

I can’t read the Epistles without wanting to know a lot more—yet feeling stuck. Paula Fredriksen’s book on Apostle Paul’s writings helps

By Sarah Ruden

September 28, 2017

Theology

Article

Christians have always been a fractious bunch

Contentious Christians

By Joshua Kinlaw

September 27, 2017

Secularism and Modernity

Ethics

Ecumenism

Article

Did Myra Selby not deserve to have her day in the Senate as much as Amy Coney Barrett?

Seventh-Circuit Shakedown

By Cathleen Kaveny

September 25, 2017

Domestic Affairs

Ethics

Feature

King & His Mentors

The black social gospel is strangely overlooked, but it provided the theology that Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement preached

January 16, 2023

Article

When Art & Spirit Meet

Paul Lakeland ruminates on the theology of the imagination

September 21, 2017

Article

Agreeing on How to Disagree

Three philosophers and unlikely coauthors challenge our cultural moment: they opt for mutual understanding over demonization

By Robert K. Vischer

September 20, 2017

Books

Secularism and Modernity

Article

The Novels Where God Is Present

Does the Catholic novel even truly exist? A lifetime of avid reading assures me that it does

By Fr. Robert Lauder

September 20, 2017

Books

Theology

Article

A Hillbilly Heist

In terms of the red-blue divide, Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Logan Lucky’ probably isn’t going to bring us together. It may well be part of the problem

By Rand Richards Cooper

September 20, 2017

Movies

Feature

Too Much Forgetting

The failure to thematize Polish anti-Semitism seems an odd and troubling lacuna at Auschwitz

By William Collins Donahue

September 20, 2017

War and Peace

Foreign Affairs

Article

Poem | Vic's Auto Glass,

A place of hurt and waiting, shards and splinters, / Auto glass repairs, / Vic, grumpy and grouchy, / tells customers to shut up in his Italian accent.

By Jean-Mark Sens

September 20, 2017

Poetry

Article

Poem | Elephant At the Mall Grand Opening

"And yet he turns back, half a planet taking a long moment / in apparent curiosity at a stranger’s bounty, wondering if / another gift might be in the offing"

By Michael Cadnum

September 20, 2017

Poetry