Magazine

October 5, 2018

v.145 n.16

Article

Casting Stones

Long before Patrick ever set foot in Ireland, the pagan Celts believed their island was a thin, holy place, where the veil between heaven and earth vanishes

By Nancy Fitzgerald

September 29, 2018

Spirituality

The Last Word

Article

Narrative Shreds

Readers will be enriched by the way Trevor adroitly stages, from a historically rich minority perspective, the peripheries of Irish life

By Jill Wharton

September 28, 2018

Fiction

Article

Theirs Is the Kingdom

If we are called to be merciful to the “least of these brothers and sisters,” then we cannot forget those who suffer because of their faith

By Gabriel Said Reynolds

September 27, 2018

Social Justice

Foreign Affairs

Muslim-Christian Relations

Article

How a Monk Learns Mercy

The Rule of Benedict, embraced so radically by Thomas Merton, created a Scripture-shaped world suffused with reminders of God’s mercy

By Luke Timothy Johnson

September 26, 2018

Spirituality

Theology

Religious Life

Article

Newman & Theological Conflict

How does doctrine develop? And what is the proper relationship between theological inquiry and church authority?

By Philip Porter & Michael Hollerich

September 24, 2018

Theology

Secularism and Modernity

Article

The Gods of Nation & Blood

The work of the twentieth-century Jesuit theologian provides a theological critique of ethno-nationalism, and serves as a model for resisting racism today

September 24, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Article

‘What Can You Do?’

Traditional Catholic moral theology holds that only individuals can sin. But their choices are made within a matrix of structures, some good, others less so

September 20, 2018

Article

Sharks & Minnows

Despite traditional religious proscriptions against usury, the practice has become an all-too-common way of exploiting the poor in India

By Jo McGowan

September 18, 2018

Economy

Columnists

Social Justice

Article

Her, Too

Young people need guidance to make choices about sex and love, but they won’t get it from a church that’s still telling girls they’re better off dead than raped

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

September 17, 2018

Columnists

Sexual-abuse Crisis

Saints

Article

Not Just Sin-Spotters

Fifty years ago, the “universality” in Catholic ethics meant absorption into the Roman way of viewing things; a conference in Sarajevo modeled another way

September 13, 2018