Magazine

March 22, 2019

v.146 n.6

Article

Teilhard & Eugenics

More research is needed to define Teilhard’s moral vision, especially as we consider the needs of the oppressed, outcast, and differently abled.

By John P. Slattery

March 12, 2019

Theology

Bioethics

Article

Do No Harm

T. A. Cavanaugh's new book explores the Hippocratic Oath and its relationship to healing and wounding

By Mary McDonough

March 7, 2019

Bioethics

Death and Dying

Secularism and Modernity

Article

I Thought I Knew Him

I may never fully understand why a benevolent God permits suffering, but I am steadied by his firsthand experience of it

March 7, 2019

Article

Meaning & Mirage

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s extravagant new film offers a stark contrast between authoritarian brutality and the indomitable artistic spirit

By Rand Richards Cooper

March 7, 2019

Movies

Arts

Article

Angela Merkel’s Legacy

Merkel’s tenure as chancellor will be seen as a stabilizing force that elevated humanitarian values in a time of crisis

By William Collins Donahue

March 7, 2019

Foreign Affairs

Immigration

Article

A Moynihan of the Right?

Ben Sasse champions rooted community and self-reliance: though some readers might find him insufficiently attentive to systemic inequities

March 7, 2019

Article

Racism in America

Will the United States ever escape its racist history? With so much yet to be done, don’t forget or underestimate what has worked

By Margaret O’Brien Steinfels

March 5, 2019

Race

Columnists

Article

Narrative Loop

We make choices and decisions every day. Stories about living and reliving your life over and over allow us to see which of them are really consequential

February 28, 2019

Article

The Vatican Summit on Sex Abuse

The four-day Vatican summit on sex abuse revealed an unsettling paradox: the hierarchy practicing reform, and victims’ groups scorning of a missed opportunity

February 25, 2019

Article

Busted

American antitrust policymakers and judges have let large firms stifle competition. Tim Wu, a "neo-Brandeisian," thinks the time has come to fight back.

February 14, 2019

Article

Bringing the Workers on Board

Codetermination, or the practice of including workers on corporate boards, is not only deeply rooted in the Catholic tradition; it aids democracy in the workplace.

March 14, 2019

Article

Catholic Moral Theology’s False Crisis

Some Catholic moral theologians have recently expressed doubts about the fidelity of scholars in the field to the magisterium. But such doubts are unfounded.

March 13, 2019

Article

Poetry | Shipwrecked, Dreaming | In the Windy Room

Here in the windy room / a minister is speaking about light— / choosing light, no talk of Christ.

By Catherine Staples

March 11, 2019

Poetry

Article

The militarization of Western society and the rapid decline of privacy are invisible, highly printable dangers.

Letters | Prosecuting under RICO, Virilio’s vision

By The Editors

March 11, 2019

Letters

Sexual-abuse Crisis

Arts

Article

The Editors on the Vatican Summit

Even if the summit on sex abuse couldn’t do everything, it’s still fair to ask whether it did enough. The unsatisfying answer is that no one knows—yet

By The Editors

March 6, 2019

Article

A World without the West

To pretend that something called the West continues to play an organizing role in international politics is to indulge in a vast self-deception

By Andrew J. Bacevich

March 5, 2019

Article

The Ones Ignored

A primer on New York’s recently enacted Reproductive Health Act, which goes beyond Roe in its insistence on the unlimited right to do with one’s body as one pleases

By Paul Moses

February 11, 2019