Magazine

September 21, 2018

v.145 n.15

Article

Manfred’s Tavern

Manfred’s Tavern was situated along a coast road in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, and City Island, a fishing village, was closest to land

By Jay Neugeboren

September 15, 2018

Fiction

Article

Bookmarks

Two debut novels take us from the quiet grace of Idaho to the neon glitz of New York City

By Anthony Domestico

September 14, 2018

Fiction

Article

All Too Humanitarian

Besides expanding human rights, the reduction of vast income inequality is necessary to shape our future more fairly

September 10, 2018

Article

Dignity & the Death Penalty

Rather than introducing unprecedented ‘changes’ to the catechism, Pope Francis has simply pushed his predecessors’ intuitions to their logical conclusion

By The Editors

September 10, 2018

Capital Punishment

Pope Francis

Editorial

Article

Uncommon Prayers

Put your thumb on a Spanish map. Put it in the center of Madrid. I’m right under that.

By Spencer Reece

September 9, 2018

Spirituality

Poetry

Article

Lady Sings the Chants

A new book explores the thick atmosphere of religion surrounding Billie Holiday, tracing the fluid relations of music and faith

September 7, 2018

Article

The Remnant and the Restless Crowd

A new book by Jonah Goldberg calls for a return to liberal capitalism, but an elitist politics of moderation and insularity won’t solve the problem of inequality

By Sam Adler-Bell

August 1, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Economy

Foreign Affairs

Domestic Affairs

Feature

Traditional Disobedience

The risks and opportunities some Catholic bishops are grappling with today over whether to engage in civil disobedience are far from new

May 22, 2018

Article

Friends’ Lives Matter

Our commitments to social justice cannot be about principles alone; they must include concrete love for real, specific people

September 15, 2018

Article

Traditionally, theology has explained the Fall as either damning nature along with our souls or as dragging us down to the level where our ungraced world already languished.

Abandoning Eden

By The Editors

September 10, 2018

Letters

Article

Day Sleepers

Around midafternoon, our dreams slip out to have a walk around

By John Linstrom

September 10, 2018

Poetry

Article

Better Dead than Disabled?

Unless we can find a way to defend a non-ableist and non-ageist conception of human dignity, we won’t have the moral resources to resist infanticide’s normalization

By Charles Camosy

September 6, 2018

Bioethics

Secularism and Modernity

Theology

Article

Why Francis Termed the Death Penalty ‘Inadmissible’

What moral theology underlies the supposed changes to the catechism on capital punishment? It is an authoritative judgment of prudential reasoning.

September 5, 2018

Article

While the former nuncio’s incendiary claims have been largely discredited, Pope Francis still needs to articulate a path forward through the sex-abuse crisis