Magazine

August 9, 2019

v.146 n.13

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Cross the Bridge

The border crisis could provide an occasion for the bishops to show that they are more than just company men—if only they would seize the opportunity.

By The Editors

August 7, 2019

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A Brownsville Summer

A timely new novel from Oscar Cásares captures not only the vulnerability of newly arriving immigrants, but also the anxiety of simply trying to acclimate.

August 3, 2019

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Workers of the World

Because I’d read all the relevant names in college, my family made the error of looking to me to help mend my brother Vin’s blighted mind, to somehow rescue him.

By William Giraldi

August 2, 2019

Fiction

Article

Danses Macabres

A pair of German novels explore the ways societies rationalize their butchery, revisiting the entire history of twentieth-century Europe.

By John Cotter

August 1, 2019

Fiction

Jewish-Christian Relations

Social Justice

War and Peace

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Throne & Altar

The idea of religious liberty was not simply the product of the Enlightenment. It has ancient origins, going back to early Christians suffering persecution in Rome.

By Francis Oakley

July 31, 2019

Secularism and Modernity

Philosophy

Theology

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The Case for Animal Rights

Should Christians renounce both the eating of sentient creatures and the performance of experiments on them? Yes, we should, to the extent that we can.

By Paul J. Griffiths

July 23, 2019

Philosophy

Theology

Article

Between Two Borises

New Prime Minister Boris Johnson is hard to pin down ideologically. He’s charismatic, and witty, but he lacks a realistic Brexit plan.

July 23, 2019

Article

It’s Not Just Us

Comedy isn’t supposed to travel well, but brilliant shows like ‘Dreamland’ and ‘Call My Agent!’ depict the lighter side of globalization.

By Celia Wren

July 19, 2019

Television

Economy

Article

Enchanter

Marie Ponsot was endowed with genius and its astonishing sweep, swiftness, and power. She passed away with seven books of poetry and numerous awards.

By Rosemary Deen

July 17, 2019

Poetry

Spirituality

Article

Pope Francis’s Relic Diplomacy

Pope Francis’s gift of St. Peter’s relics to the Orthodox patriarch is remarkable. Rather than righting a previous wrong, it constitutes a genuine self-emptying.

By George E. Demacopoulos

July 16, 2019

Article

Cruelty’s the Point

The retrial of humanitarian border activist Scott Warren raises frightening concerns for all who would help migrants. A conviction would set a dangerous precedent.

July 11, 2019

Article

Father Land

The thread running Michael Brendan Dougherty’s book is the author’s spiritual development, which culminates in the discovery of his own vocation as a father.

June 25, 2019

Secularism and Modernity

Article

More than Cricket

The 1963 sports memoir of Trinidadian intellectual C.L.R. James analyzes sport as a key to politics, sociology, and indeed the whole of life

By Rand Richards Cooper

January 8, 2019

Nonfiction

Social Justice

Economy

Article

Does Church Teaching Change?

Vatican II marked a turning point, showing that appropriate change did not mean losing one’s identity but, rather, enhancing it or salvaging it from ossification.

By John W. O’Malley

July 31, 2019

Vatican II

Theology

Article

London’s Memorial Church Ruins

In the City of London, half a dozen churches remain as hollow shells, potent physical reminders of the Second World War.

By Altair Brandon-Salmon

July 31, 2019

War and Peace

Spirituality

Travel

Article

Poem | In a Palace

We deplore / His sheer, strange littleness / Compared to everything that came before.

By Sarah Ruden

July 29, 2019

Poetry

Article

Poem | Weasel

When the hound loosed her ragged clamor, / and the rifle its seed, surely his hubris / was forgivable as he let his pursuit / see him in his tawny glamor

By Michael Cadnum

July 29, 2019

Poetry

Article

Hesburgh was a good and faithful priest, but I experienced him first as a man.

Letters | A debate on Christian flesh, a story about Fr. Hesburgh

By The Editors

July 29, 2019

Letters

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The Purposes of Punishment

A new book proposes the abolition of life sentences. But meaningful criminal justice reform requires greater clarity about the nature and purpose of prison time.

July 26, 2019

Article

Why the ‘Metropolitan Plan’ Doesn’t Work

In dealing with bishops who engage in sexual misconduct, the USCCB seems to think that bishops can police themselves, without lay input. We need a better system.

July 11, 2019

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