Article Bread Arrives On Good Friday, we are asked to recall Jesus's Way of the Cross, and to walk with the destitute, the dying, and the outcasts.By Patrick HenryMarch 23, 2020 The Last Word Spirituality Books Poetry
Article A Second Death We struggle to imagine the afterlife, let alone the dark corners of Purgatory.By Jerry RyanFebruary 27, 2020 Death and Dying Spirituality The Last Word
Article Language & Conversion Conversion, like language acquisition, can be both comforting and bittersweet, a constant struggle toward fluency and understanding. By Melody S. GeeFebruary 14, 2020 The Last Word Spirituality Travel
Article Feathers What we find outside are physical manifestations of the holy, representative of the sloughing off of old skin, the salt of blood and the sea, signs of the divine.By Rachel SturgesDecember 23, 2019 Spirituality Environment The Last Word
Article Behold the Child Children may be weak, helpless, and needy, but they are not quiet: they demand the love that rightly belongs to them.By Roberto J. De La NovalDecember 8, 2019 Spirituality Theology The Last Word
Article A Peace Church It’s time for the church to take the lead on the commitment to peace and disarmament that Pope John XXIII undertook more than fifty years ago.By Tom CornellNovember 1, 2019 War and Peace U.S. Catholicism Spirituality The Last Word
PoliticsAmerican Arsenal America’s “gun problem” is not a problem so much as a condition of life—and in its apparent permanence, a dangerously debilitating one.By Dominic PreziosiFebruary 9, 2021
ReligionAll Will Be Well When facing the problem of evil, we must start where we are: in the thick of it.By Denys TurnerJanuary 31, 2021
CultureGoing to Extremes What does it mean to take empathy seriously?By John Paul RollertFebruary 8, 2021
BooksOn Papal Populism Pope Francis’s new book offers a vision for a politics rooted in solidarity.By Austen IvereighFebruary 7, 2021
CollectionsLenten Reflections Reflections and poems to offer spiritual guidance during this period of national and theological mourningBy The EditorsFebruary 23, 2021
