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January 2022

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‘Lived from the Heart’

Understanding mystics and mysticism

By Kenneth L. Woodward

January 19, 2022

Interview

Religion

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The Christ Life

If the first Mass at the Last Supper welcomed a mix of allegiance and desertion, the here-and-now Church cannot do otherwise.

By George Dennis O’Brien

January 14, 2022

The Last Word

Spirituality

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Mirror, Mirror

A major retrospective devoted to the art of Jasper Johns affords new visions of the artist, and ourselves.

January 12, 2022

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There Will Be Blogs

Why preserve for posterity, or at all, what is by definition scarcely meant to endure beyond the moment?

January 11, 2022

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Learning from Las Hermanas

Looking back at Las Hermanas’ role in the three Encuentros can help those committed to synodality better understand the task ahead.

January 10, 2022

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Putting Ourselves Together Again

Kaya Oakes’s new book addresses the experiences of women on the margins or in “liminal spaces”—women who do not fit in.

By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

January 8, 2022

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The Empowerment Trap

The documentary LuLaRich shows how the LuLaRoe multilevel-marketing scheme preyed on women’s desire to balance careers with families.

January 6, 2022

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Where the Action Is

Questions of ministry in the Catholic Church—and who ministers—suggest way to bring Vatican II principles into practice.

January 5, 2022

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The Fallen Idol

Neoliberalism has failed. Catholic social teaching can help us replace it with something better.

January 3, 2022

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Modi Backs Down

After a year of nonviolent demonstrations, Indian farmers succeed in forcing the repeal of three laws that would have deregulated India’s agriculture sector.

By Jo McGowan

January 1, 2022

India

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‘Shipwreck of Civilization’

Indifference toward the migrant crisis has lately become even more tinged with hostility to migrants themselves—and opposition to the right to migrate at all.

December 31, 2021

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The Standoff in Ukraine

It is time to be clear and firm with both Russia and Ukraine, encouraging them to adopt the Minsk II protocols rather than escalating military tensions.

By The Editors

December 23, 2021

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Manchin’s Machinations

Sen. Joe Manchin’s ability to singlehandedly tank Biden’s agenda demonstrates the dysfunction in our political system.

December 22, 2021

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The Omicron Surge

It’s too late to stop Omicron from spreading, but it’s not too late to mitigate its worst effects.

By Isabella Simon

December 21, 2021

Coronavirus

Domestic Affairs

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Gerald Russello understood that, while laws could help bring order to people’s lives, the goal of life wasn’t order. The goal of life was love.

Pius Giraldus

By Scott D. Moringiello

November 24, 2021

Death and Dying

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Good Spirits

In Margaret Verble’s new novel, ghosts serve as a means of preserving indigenous culture.

By Katherine Lucky

October 30, 2021

Fiction

Indigenous Peoples

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Ride Blind

Maggie Nelson’s latest book challenges us to embrace nuance and complexity, resisting “right” answers and straight stories.

October 14, 2021

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Learning What to Want

Not all aesthetic consumption is equal, and developing the ability to judge the art we encounter can help transform us.

By Nate Klug

September 8, 2021

Literature

Higher Education

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War & Penance

As we reflect on the end of the war in Afghanistan, the Church’s penitential practices can help us examine our consciences, individually and collectively.

By Philip G. Porter

May 29, 2023

War and Peace

U.S. Catholicism

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Julia in Teotitlán Del Valle, Oaxaca, 2021

Recording that which is in danger of disappearing gradually

By Luvia Lazo

December 21, 2021

Closing Shot

Latin America

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Wars and Remembrance

World War II has long been enshrined in American memory as the “Good War.” Reexamining this interpretation is a necessary task.

By Andrew J. Bacevich

December 21, 2021

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Poem | Cave Painting

“The land is wide and made of stone. / The horizon is unseen, but also rock. The excited, / fearful cheers, too, are grain / beside grain of lime-stone.”

By Michael Cadnum

December 21, 2021

Poetry

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Poem | Salt

Domestic presence, staple, / residue of tears, / buoyancy, the rocking buoy / saying to drifting children / here, where I am / you may drop your nets

By Marjorie Mir

December 21, 2021

Poetry

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In touting various retrograde positions in his speech, Gomez suggests the American bishops, whom he leads, side not with the victims of an unjust status quo but with their persecutors.

Letters | ‘An echo of clericalism’

By The Editors

December 21, 2021

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