Magazine

March 2023

v.150 n.3

Article

Called as we are to dialogue with Jews, especially in our reading of shared Scripture, this book takes us into the world of Jewish exegesis, theology, and spirituality.

Christians and the Torah

By David Neuhaus, SJ

March 16, 2023

Jewish-Christian Relations

Theology

Article

On Tradition and the Passion Play

How a Bavarian village’s once-a-decade Passion play became a wrenching, intimate, sometimes chaotic psychological theo-drama

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

March 15, 2023

Arts

Jewish-Christian Relations

Lent

History

Article

The Case for Social Housing

The crisis of affordable housing is a result of political choices, not economic laws.

March 15, 2023

Article

Why Does Francis Focus on Migration?

Pope Francis is the greatest advocate on the world stage for migrants and refugees. For him, the issue is personal.

March 11, 2023

Article

Saturday Soul

Rhythm Revue—a fixture of Newark public radio for nearly forty years—faithfully celebrates the sounds of classic R&B.

March 10, 2023

Article

Antitrust advocates will have to contend not just with corporate concentration, but also with the concentration of power in Congress.

The Future of Antitrust

March 6, 2023

Article

Eliot’s Pitiless Brilliance

An extraordinary new study of ‘The Waste Land’ offers—with intensity and good humor—a comprehensive reading of Eliot’s greatest masterpiece.

By William H. Pritchard

March 1, 2023

Article

Churches have become a refuge for many of those who suddenly find themselves without homes during an exceptionally cold winter.

In the Rubble in Syria

By Santiago Ramos

March 1, 2023

International

Politics

Article

Israeli Democracy on the Brink

Israel is now well on its way to becoming a right-wing ethnocracy.

By The Editors

February 27, 2023

Article

Diplomacy Isn’t Delusional

In the Ukraine war, a total victory for either side is unlikely. That's why, alongside continued fighting, a space must be made for diplomacy.

By Gregory M. Reichberg, Stein Tønnesson, and Henrik Syse

January 31, 2023

Continuing the Conversation

Article

Ukraine Is Not Melos...

Let’s keep Thucydides out of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

By Sven G. Holtsmark

January 25, 2023

Continuing the Conversation

Article

Is Christianity a Cult of the Dead?

Christ was not worshiped for the manner of his death but because he was raised from the dead. Any history of the Christian martyrs must understand that fact.

By Luke Timothy Johnson

March 22, 2023

Feature

Renunciation and Christian Happiness

If union with God in self-sacrificing love is the highest end of a life, providing true happiness, how can we achieve it?

By Zena Hitz

March 20, 2023

Religious Life

Philosophy

Lent

Article

The Ghosts and Jokes of Cormac McCarthy

“I have lately come into possession of a fact that threatens my very sense of things. It is this: Cormac McCarthy is funny.”

By Phil Christman

March 6, 2023

Books

Culture

Article

Assisted Suicide & the Cure of Souls

A priest asks: How can Christian pastors—and others committed to a Christian vision of dying—remain faithful amid the rise of assisted suicide?

By Cole Hartin

March 1, 2023

Death and Dying

Religion

Politics

Article

Poem | Earth

"Gods as wild as the stars, who reigned / in a firmament unpolluted by city lights."

By Stuart Dybek

March 1, 2023

Poetry

Article

Poem | Anthracite Revisited

"it was a defining time / a time I chose to cherish— / it was the January of my life / now it is October"

By Wilma Spellman

March 1, 2023

Poetry

Article

The worshippers look down, / stooped by the past / and unheard prayers. / We look to the dark glitter / of the mosaicked vault

Poem | In the Basilica of San Vitale

By W. S. Di Piero

March 1, 2023

Poetry

Article

Poem | Enter You, Waving

"There you were, last year, just inside the door, / hand raised like a happy Etruscan lord / reposing on his limestone tomb."

By W. S. Di Piero

March 1, 2023

Poetry

Feature

An Unintended Icon?

The new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero unexpectedly recreates the Virgin of the Passion icon.

By Matthew J. Milliner

March 1, 2023

art

Architecture

Feature

Beauty & Grief

The Whitney’s ‘no existe un mundo poshuracán’ exhibits not only the horrors of natural disasters and human incompetence, but also the power of resilience.

By Alejandro Anreus

March 1, 2023

Arts

Latin America

Article

California’s State of Disaster

Katherine Lucky pens a letter on California life in the face of devastating flooding and horrifying gun violence.

February 28, 2023

Article

Not just Democratic Roman Catholics but also a very considerable number of Republican Roman Catholics favor legislation (and court rulings) protective of gay rights and same-sex marriage.