Article An Unhealed Wound From our archives, highlights of a half-century's worth of writing on ‘Humanae Vitae’ By The Editors June 5, 2018 Contraception mandate Vatican II U.S. Catholicism Bishops Bioethics
Article Dialogue Could Work Will President Trump’s opponents succeed by rejecting his tactics of division? By E. J. Dionne Jr. June 4, 2018 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Columnists
Article From “Does Method Matter? Contraception and Catholic Identity,” Part II A devotional approach to Natural Family Planning teaches those who practice it that sex is a gift, not an entitlement By Christopher C. Roberts June 4, 2018 Sexuality Contraception mandate
Article From “Does Method Matter? Contraception and Catholic Identity,” Part I To understand human sex is to focus first on its effects on whole persons, not on its biological outcome By Lisa Fullam June 4, 2018 Sexuality Contraception mandate Women in the Church
Article From “Contraception and Honesty” What the ‘Humanae vitae’ debate is—and is not—about By Peter Steinfels June 4, 2018 Bishops Contraception mandate U.S. Catholicism Sexuality
Poetry Annual Thaw “we lay between a body and a cold place, / but today I see only air” By John Linstrom June 4, 2018 Poetry
Poetry Found in the City “The concrete below me sounds heavy with pounding— / the light of your light in the air lifts it all.” By John Linstrom June 4, 2018 Poetry
Article The Bard’s religion, the Kingdom of God, etc. Readers respond to the prospect of Shakespeare’s Catholicism, the dumbing down of Catholics in church history, the truth about old age, and more By The Editors June 4, 2018 Letters
Article A Heartless Policy The Trump administration traumatizes, terrorizes, and defaces the image of God all of us bear. By John Gehring June 4, 2018 Immigration Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Social Justice
Article From “A Disembodied ‘Theology of the Body’” A theology of the body ought at least to have feet that touch the ground By Luke Timothy Johnson June 3, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Sexuality
Article From “Sex: How Odd of God” Humanae vitae was a regressive moment in Catholic history and the history of human sexuality By Robert G. Hoyt June 3, 2018 Contraception mandate U.S. Catholicism Sexuality
Article From “Indefensible: Moral Teaching after ‘Humanae Vitae’” Humanae vitae damaged not only the respect of the faithful for the Church's moral teaching, but also the integrity of Catholic moral theology itself By Michael Dummett June 3, 2018 Sexuality U.S. Catholicism Contraception mandate
Article “Anniversary Waltz,” editorial Rather than enhancing the church’s teaching on sexuality, the encyclical unwittingly undermined it By The Editors June 3, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Contraception mandate
Article From “A Bitter Pill” A historian explains how silence on contraception drove a regrettable wedge between the clergy and laity on sexual morality By Leslie Tentler June 3, 2018 Sexuality Theology Vatican II
Article From “The Troubling Spirit” Sectarianism of “party men” is what threatens the Church—the Catholic Church—today By William Clancy June 3, 2018 Contraception mandate U.S. Catholicism
