Magazine

March 8, 2019

v.146 n.5

Article

Privilege Masked as Orthodoxy

The defamation of Cardinal Toribio Ticona follows an all-too-familiar pattern, as one of Pope Francis’s appointments becomes a proxy in church culture wars

By Jerry Ryan

March 2, 2019

Pope Francis

Poverty

Vatican II

Article

Highbrow Self-Help

A new series occasionally distills ancient texts into soulless banalities that merely flatter and reinforce our twenty-first-century sensibilities

March 1, 2019

Article

Trump’s Fake Emergency

Senate Republicans are unlikely to oppose Trump’s latest outrage on the border wall. Preserving the separation of powers will fall to the Supreme Court

By The Editors

March 1, 2019

Article

Beyond Personal Piety

We need to move beyond our inherited clericalism. The idea that the laity have no agency in the church is not magisterial teaching; it is not, in fact, true

By Michael Sweeney, OP

February 28, 2019

Article

From Trotsky to Soros

What does violence in Charlottesville and Pittsburgh have to do with WWI-era Moscow? A new book details the destructive power of anti-Semitic myths

By James J. Sheehan

February 27, 2019

Jewish-Christian Relations

Foreign Affairs

War and Peace

Article

Why Should Public Schools Be Exempt?

New York State’s new Child Victims Act allows people who were sexually abused in childhood to sue public institutions. What does the law mean for the church?

By Paul Moses

February 27, 2019

Article

Why I Left the Church...and Returned

The Catholic Church today is in crisis. But it is not the hierarchy alone who belong in sackcloth and ashes, begging forgiveness; all of us must become penitents.

February 25, 2019