Magazine

February 8, 2019

v.146 n.3

Article

Trashing Teilhard

The Jesuit theologian has recently come under fire for his supposed racism and support of eugenics; but great religious thinkers must be read with care and precision

By John F. Haught

February 12, 2019

Theology

Race

Feature

Taming the Demon

Our modern obsession with workplace efficiency has a simple answer: the prayerful, peaceful pace of Benedictine monastic labor

February 2, 2019

Article

Surviving Survivalism

Westover tells the story of her soul, not her accomplishments. Becoming an individual through paideia, she discovers herself as a relational being

February 1, 2019

Article

To Change the World

Liberation theology arose from a set of complex intellectual and social currents on both sides of the Atlantic. A new book traces the threads

January 31, 2019

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Down & Out at Amazon

Recent books of undercover labor journalism reveal the misery behind the material conditions most of us take for granted

January 28, 2019

Article

Not the Mafia

The church is hardly a criminal organization, and prosecuting it under the RICO statute doesn’t make sense. Bankruptcy laws, however, offer a better way

January 28, 2019

Article

Where to Start?

I see the Jackson Housing project, towering seven buildings deep. Its electric lights usurp the stars on this and every other night

By Br. Joseph Michael Fino, CFR

January 27, 2019

Article

A Heist of the Heart

Wielding his trademark tools of pathos and whimsy, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda announces he’s out to steal your heart—then tiptoes in and does it anyway

By Rand Richards Cooper

January 18, 2019

Movies

Poverty

Social Justice