Article Velvet & Pus “To encounter the Catholic Church is to touch and smell and taste; to shiver. So too in the queer world.” By Eve Tushnet August 2, 2021 LGBTQ issues Theology U.S. Catholicism
Article ‘When Black Was Born’ A new documentary explores the power of Black music at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969. By Clifford Thompson August 1, 2021 Music Race Movies
Article ‘Drop a Notch the Sacred Shield’ The strange, syncopated, joyful, and utterly inimitable music of Etheridge Knight’s poems By Christian Wiman July 31, 2021 Poetry Spirituality
Article The Wrong Men Canadian bishops still won’t confront the shameful legacy of residential schools. By Michael W. Higgins July 30, 2021 Bishops Foreign Affairs Indigenous Peoples
Article A Living Catholic Tradition With his latest motu proprio, Pope Francis confirms the reformed liturgy as normative for the whole Church, reaffirming the Second Vatican Council. By Rita Ferrone July 30, 2021 Pope Francis Vatican II Liturgy
Life Sentences For National Book Award winner Alice McDermott, being a writer is a lot like being a believer. You get comfortable living in the dark. Fiction Spirituality
Article Give It an ‘F’ Journalistic values are moral values, and on this measure The Pillar fails. By Paul Moses July 28, 2021 Bishops LGBTQ issues
Article ‘No Tenemos Miedo’ The protests in Cuba may provide an opportunity for Cuban citizens to empower themselves, if they are properly supported. By Alejandro Anreus July 28, 2021 Foreign Affairs Latin America
Article Mushroom as Metaphor Ecological systems—fungi in particular—provide a way to consider interdependence and relationships outside of competition and neoliberalism. By Vincent J. Miller July 28, 2021 Environment Philosophy Social Justice
Article The Liturgy Wars The Tridentine rite won’t bring back a golden age in the Church. But defenders of liturgical reform shouldn’t be complacent about their own problems. By Paul Baumann July 27, 2021 Vatican II Pope Francis U.S. Catholicism
Article Baseball, Journalism, and the Big New York City Novel An interview with Harper’s Magazine editor and novelist Christopher Beha By Rand Richards Cooper July 26, 2021 Books Sports Interview
Article Seen and Not Seen Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel, ‘Peaces,’ is a work of imaginative exuberance, at once absurd and moving. By Phil Christman July 25, 2021 Fiction Literature
Article ‘Coherence’ & Coercion The Church helps form consciences, and laypeople are asked to use them to discern what is possible and prudent in political life. By Austen Ivereigh July 21, 2021 Joe Biden Bishops U.S. Catholicism
Article Polanyi-ish A new book aims to upend the axiom that limiting the scope of market activity necessarily constricts freedom. By Matt Mazewski July 21, 2021 Economy Domestic Affairs Nonfiction
Article The Dalit Theologian Fr. Stan Swamy dedicated his life to serving the poor in India, fighting for the rights of the most marginalized members of society. By Jo McGowan July 20, 2021 India Social Justice Foreign Affairs
