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Maggie Nelson’s latest book challenges us to embrace nuance and complexity, resisting “right” answers and straight stories.

The poetry of San Juan de la Cruz forgets the familiar, easy, and convenient, slipping into darkness and unknowing to find God.

A new book seeks to update Msgr. John A. Ryan’s vision of a moral economy for our own day and age.

We live toward death, inescapably. Yet we also live surrounded by grace, love that has the power to ground us.

Synodality can demythologize clerical power, but in order to work, the people it centers must include the vulnerable, not just the elite.

Cynthia Ozick’s latest book chronicles mid-century U.S. culture and the friction between WASP America and Jewish people.

On the emerging trend of “literary fanfic,” fictional retellings of classic literature or the lives of historical figures

Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.

Sarah Ruden’s new translation of the Gospels is far from straightforward.

American attention on Afghanistan often neglects the material needs of ordinary Afghans, especially food security, which is now being threatened by climate change.

“We’ll never get beyond racism if we keep indulging the presumption that people of a particular color think alike, along color-coded lines.”

The late John August Swanson’s ‘Procession’ reminds us that we all walk together, sharing our suffering and our happiness.

An excerpt from ‘Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis’

The continued existence of Guantánamo Bay is unconscionable. So is the fact that it was ever opened in the first place.