Magazine

October 2022

v.149 n.9

Download PDF

Previous Issue Next Issue

Feature

The Making of Raphael Warnock

Raphael Warnock’s career reflects challenges and hopes of the Black church.

December 6, 2022

Article

Confucius Envy

Where most American pundits see a foe, some post-liberal thinkers see a friend.

October 17, 2022

Article

Who Can We Forgive?

Should Catholics hope to forgive abusers like Theodore McCarrick? Why should we ever want to?

By Adam A. J. DeVille

October 16, 2022

Sexual-abuse Crisis

Religion

Bishops

Article

Textbook Racism

The mangling of American history has served to reinforce racism at the most fundamental level: through the stories and ideas we have passed on to our children.

October 11, 2022

Article

Who Knew?

What permits the injustice of Church sexual abuse? We can learn a lot by looking at how knowledge flows within the Church—and where it is blocked.

October 10, 2022

Feature

The Art of Activism

For Yolanda López, human dignity, even sanctity, lay primarily among those living at the margins of American culture.

September 29, 2022

Article

Hizzoner’s Dishonor

A new book from Andrew Kirtzman charts the rise and fall of "America's Mayor."

By Paul Moses

September 27, 2022

Books

Domestic Affairs

Donald Trump

Article

DeSantis’s Stunt

Migrants are people, not pawns to be moved across the country in a game of politics. They deserve care, not false promises.

September 23, 2022

Article

Learning the Right Questions

The best way to remember historian John W. O’Malley, SJ is to read his books—and to thank God for the gracious gift of his learned servant.

By Kenneth L. Woodward

September 14, 2022

Article

The Curia is at the service of both the pope and the bishops, not an intermediary wedged between them.

The Power to Serve

September 7, 2022

Article

Unions on the Hill

After years of supporting organized labor, politicians are now confronted with their own employees’ union.

By Timmy Facciola

September 5, 2022

Politics

Domestic Affairs

Article

Making Pregnancy Safer

Pro-choice advocates tout the relative safety of abortion versus pregnancy. But more access to abortion doesn’t address the United States’ abysmal maternal care.

By Jessica Keating Floyd

August 29, 2022

Abortion

Health Care

Article

‘Eve Country’

The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has once again shifted international perceptions of Japan.

August 9, 2022

Article

Attention & Outrage

In Ada Calhoun’s ‘Also a Poet,’ writing a biography of Frank O’Hara is really a way of writing an autobiography of Calhoun’s relationship with her father.

July 31, 2022

Article

A Change of Hart?

What, exactly, is David Bentley Hart’s deal? What is his vast and diverse corpus fundamentally driving at?

October 10, 2022

Article

Don’t Look Away

Louisa Lim’s memoir offers an inside perspective on the defiance and determination of Hong Kongers.

By Elizabeth M. Lynch

October 5, 2022

Article

Supersizing Labor Rights

After decades of decline, the labor movement in America is once again on the move.

October 2, 2022

Article

Poem | Flight

“We all turned away / from our priest to watch / the child push the big oak door.”

By Gary Stein

September 26, 2022

Poetry

Article

May God be for you the binding vow, The hidden only way, Sustaining you this day and each to come

Poem | Nuptial

By Patrick Jordan

September 26, 2022

Poetry

Article

Poem | Petition to the Powers of Late October

“The gash you make / in the surf, // where you strike, / hollows and // hallows.”

By Malcolm Farley

September 26, 2022

Poetry

Article

Poem | The Dirt

“The boy’s white hair turns brown turns / white in the sun / smells of summer”

By Judy Brackett

September 26, 2022

Poetry

Article

Ending Child Poverty

The Child Tax Credit rescued thousands of children from poverty. Why not renew it?

By The Editors

September 26, 2022

Poverty

Politics

Editorial

Article

Books in Brief

This month, the editors are reading crime fiction, theology, and cultural criticism in the form of a not-manual.

By The Editors

September 26, 2022

Article

I have long been saddened and perplexed that the American hierarchy squanders the Church’s rich moral resources by focusing on a narrow range of issues, particularly abortion.