How We Found Hope in 2020 On this special end-of-year episode, we’re revisiting four of our favorite conversations with Catholics who’ve inspired us. Race LGBTQ issues
Article Experiments in Living What does freedom look like in a pandemic year? By Santiago Ramos December 22, 2020 Literature Coronavirus
Article Only a Down Payment The $900 billion pandemic assistance package comes none too soon. But it also comes up far too short for vulnerable Americans. By The Editors December 21, 2020 Economy Coronavirus Domestic Affairs
Article Living on Many Levels In times of crisis, returning to books first read years ago and set in eras gone by can help us gain perspective on the present. By Dominic Preziosi December 21, 2020 Books Christmas Critics Politics
Article Surprise Us, Lord “That is what I’m asking God for this Advent: surprises, impossibilities, unexpected solutions, the working out of things in ways I can’t envision.” By Kate Lucky December 20, 2020 Spirituality
Article Poem | Ars Poetica To write is to flesh out. To roll back / the skin beneath my eyes and trace an empty / waterline. By Uma Menon December 18, 2020 Poetry
Article COVID’s Toll on the Orthodox Christian Church Too many Orthodox Christian communities have been crippled by the pandemic, a problem exacerbated by bishops who disregard public health requirements. By George E. Demacopoulos December 18, 2020 Coronavirus Foreign Affairs Ecumenism
Article Poem | Astronomy Climb another flint-backed ridge, / your own breath the only life. / Let another desert cool under / the empty multitude— By Michael Cadnum December 17, 2020 Poetry
Article Working It Out For Millenials, “burnout isn’t just a temporary affliction. It’s our contemporary condition.” By Katie Daniels December 17, 2020 Books Technology Christmas Critics
Article Poem | Brooklyn Radiator The sweetness and the stuffiness, / my slippers on your feet, blankets // draped, the room preheated by / my “Brooklyn radiator,” and you, By John Linstrom December 16, 2020 Poetry
Article Poem | Lower Mathematics She tells him: snowflakes, grains of sand, chess moves, / broken promises, teardrops and raindrops By Judy Brackett Crowe December 16, 2020 Poetry
Article France’s War on Terror Years of Islamist attacks show the problem is real and nuanced—but the Macron government continues to play politics with its response. By Cole Stangler December 16, 2020 Foreign Affairs Muslim-Christian Relations Terrorism
Article 2020 Books in Review Our book columnist recommends his favorite books of 2020. By Anthony Domestico December 15, 2020 Books Poetry Fiction Nonfiction
Article Many and One A living Church must hold two seemingly opposed but equally radiant goods: the local and the universal. By Vinson Cunningham December 14, 2020 Fratelli tutti Pope Francis Race
Article Can’t Explain A new memoir explores the messiness inherent in portraying faith in fiction. By Gerald J. Russello December 13, 2020 Nonfiction Books Spirituality
