Article Italy’s Tipping Point? Right-wing parties may take control of Italy this fall, as the Left lacks a socially progressive answer to the populists. By Massimo Faggioli July 27, 2022 Foreign Affairs Vatican
Feature My Mother’s Honeymoon “The country of my parents’ romance was located in the territory whose borders were Rome to the East and Hollywood to the West.” By Mary Gordon July 26, 2022 Domestic Affairs
Article ‘Natural Enemies’ No More John T. McGreevy on the history of the papacy’s relationship with democracy. By John T. McGreevy July 24, 2022 postliberalism Secularism and Modernity Philosophy
Article Strict Account Bernardine Evaristo’s ‘Manifesto’ offers a clear, spirited account of the author’s experience as a biracial woman in the publishing world. By Valerie Sayers July 23, 2022 Nonfiction Books Race
Article Subversive Orthodoxy A new documentary explores Fr. Jim Martin’s LGBT ministry By Michael Leach July 22, 2022 LGBTQ issues U.S. Catholicism Movies
Should Catholics Promote Democracy? On this episode, historian John McGreevy explains how the twentieth-century Catholic Church finally came to embrace democracy. Politics Vatican II
Article Doubling Down There is nothing recognizably Catholic about the approach to politics or internal Church disagreements taken by Catholics for Choice. By Paul Baumann July 21, 2022 Abortion U.S. Catholicism
Article Closer Encounters A conference in Rome brings clarity to one of Pope Francis’s more elusive concepts By Paul Elie July 20, 2022 Pope Francis Fratelli tutti Synodality
Article Can Sanctions Help Save Ukraine? A new book by Nicholas Mulder explores the limitations of sanctions throughout history. By David Cortright July 19, 2022 Ukraine International Books War and Peace
Article Spiritual Battle As bizarre as Viganò’s claims are, we cannot ignore that a Catholic archbishop actively assisted Steve Bannon in spreading the Big Lie leading up to January 6. By Paul Moses July 15, 2022 U.S. Catholicism Donald Trump Bishops
Article American Idols “Catholics who advocate for the dignity of all human life still have a lot of work to do.” By David Albertson July 13, 2022 Gun Control Abortion End-of-life Issues Death and Dying Pope John Paul II
Article Poem | Book of Hours 32 “My work doesn’t do any good, our yard the same / as when I started” By Jerry Harp July 13, 2022 Poetry
Article Poem | August, Friday, Grand and Clear “Where we’re going isn’t far, / Nor is it fair.” By Spencer Hupp July 13, 2022 Poetry
Article Poem | Ducks “Past the threshold of the estate nothing is allowed to go / to picturesque ruin, and nothing runs riot.” By Ange Mlinko July 13, 2022 Poetry
Article Poem | Advice “Every old lady should keep a hatchet handy.” By Wilma Spellman July 13, 2022 Poetry