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June 2023

v.150 n.6

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Pope Francis’s Vision for the Church

Though his focus on synodality, Pope Francis is helping the Church walk together on a path of renewal.

By Bishop John Stowe, OFM, Conv.

July 5, 2023

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What Death Has Taught Me

Amid the suffering in the hospital, I experience glimpses of the Resurrection: people from all walks of life coming together to help those in need.

July 5, 2023

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Conscience and Catholic Health Care

Those who want Catholic health-care institutions to remain substantively Catholic must articulate a more robust definition of pluralism and conscience rights.

July 3, 2023

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Pathways to Holiness

James Keenan’s history of Catholic theological ethics reveals his commitment to historical consciousness, pastoral practice, and inclusivity.

July 3, 2023

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A Better Journalism?

In Lance Morrow’s new book, the veteran ‘Time’ essayist drops names, complains about boomers, and offers an apologia for the journalism of the “American Century.”

June 25, 2023

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Abuse at Catholic Orphanages

In her account of St. Joseph orphanage, Christine Kenneally patiently and unflinchingly stitches together a brutal record of abuse.

June 21, 2023

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The Case Against Consolidation

Buying stuff has become the primary way Americans engage with strangers in public.

June 18, 2023

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A Connoisseur of Uncertainty

For John Maynard Keynes, economics was as much about ‘animal spirits’ as it was about statistics.

June 18, 2023

Feature

Old Motifs Made New

Cecily Brown's art absorbs and transforms fragments from the whole sweep of European art history.

By Griffin Oleynick

June 17, 2023

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Death and Dying

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On the Clock

Cyril Schäublin’s latest film—capturing the efforts of 19th-century anarchist watchmakers—dramatizes resistance to tech-reliant, capitalist control.

June 15, 2023

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There is a sense, here, of abiding in mystery, of a magisterial silence scrupulously maintained—in a way, a fundamentally religious posture.

The Tenacity of Colm Tóibín

June 9, 2023

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Consider the Birds

Can we ever really know what it is like to be a mole, a tick, or a bird?

June 5, 2023

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The End of Title 42

Title 42 is lifted. But its replacement still severely limits migrants' ability to seek asylum.

June 1, 2023

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Hitting Pause on Artificial Intelligence

In the face of advanced AI, we must find an alternative to the blind enthusiasm and lazy fatalism that usually characterizes American discussions about technology.

By The Editors

May 29, 2023

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The Pandemic Isn’t Over

When it comes to Covid, there is now a solid bipartisan consensus that ignorance is bliss.

May 27, 2023

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Should Feinstein Step Down?

How does the public benefit when its representatives show obvious signs of not being up to the job?

By Dominic Preziosi

May 25, 2023

Politics

Domestic Affairs

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True Allegiance?

The coronation might be a mess of entangled traditions, of shame as well as glory, but it is also an opportunity for Charles to consecrate himself to service.

By Austen Ivereigh

May 9, 2023

Foreign Affairs

History

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Gorsuch Gets It Wrong

Neil Gorsuch’s position on vaccines and religious liberty is fundamentally confused.

April 25, 2023

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For days they bobbled among us / as we prepared meals or drank wine

Poem | At the End of the Day

"At the end of the day I go to sleep, except when I don’t, / and last night star jasmine and linden blossoms / sweetened the air"

By Judy Brackett

May 30, 2023

Poetry

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Poem | Thoughts in Eden

"We want savage tones, / a jaguar, howler monkeys, peacocks, / wheels of fire above"

By W. S. Di Piero

May 30, 2023

Poetry

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Poem | Lockdown

“In the residue that is the world’s we scrub / for meaning, oceans of knowledge undulating // to a wave”

By Howard Altmann

May 30, 2023

Poetry

Article

Few who fully support the Ukraine War acknowledge one overarching irony: while nations mobilize against expansionist totalitarian tyranny—with all the treasure, risk, and human cost that entails—political dissent is marginalized, even deemed treasonous.