Article Readers Respond Readers question the legacy of Pope Francis, consider death, trace the faith life of Thomas Merton, and more By The Editors April 22, 2018 Letters
Feature Hipness & Humanity Things (and people) are interesting. That’s the simple and surprising thesis of HBO’s ‘High Maintenance’ By Griffin Oleynick April 20, 2018 Television Secularism and Modernity
Article The Mediterranean Frontier Amid Italy’s prolonged political upheaval, traditional cultural gatekeepers—the Catholic Church included—have lost their influence By Massimo Faggioli April 19, 2018 Foreign Affairs Pope Francis
Article Travel Agents with a Side of Assassination ‘The Americans’, an FX show about Soviet spies posing as American suburbanites, redeems its excesses By Celia Wren April 19, 2018 Television
Article Trump & the Liberal Choice How should liberals reach out (or not) to Trump’s supporters? By Rand Richards Cooper April 19, 2018 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article Poem | The Problem of Evil “The Problem of Evil’s doing well these days: / Five international meetings in one year! / I’ll skip that one in India next Spring, // Calcutta’s too depressing” By Kevin Hart April 18, 2018 Poetry
Article Letters | Ways of knowing, the dignity of labor, etc. Gary Gutting responds to Paul Griffith’s review, a reader makes a correction, and more By The Editors April 18, 2018 Letters
Article Neighboring Souls A comic tale of two men—Bob Dylan and Thomas Merton—seeking a way through the age’s “baroque obscenities” By Eric Miller April 18, 2018 Music Spirituality Secularism and Modernity
Article He Does Not Forget Christ chose what was common and contemptible in this world to reduce to nothing all that seems so important to us By Jerry Ryan April 18, 2018 Spirituality Death and Dying
Article Mission Accomplished? The missile attacks in Syria won’t deter Assad or salve our consciences By The Editors April 17, 2018 Donald Trump War and Peace Middle East Editorial
Article How to Alienate Millennials from the Pro-Life Movement Embrace Trump and single-issue abortion politics, ignore Pope Francis By Paul Moses April 17, 2018 Donald Trump Abortion U.S. Catholicism Secularism and Modernity Pope Francis
Article Self-Respect or White Supremacy? Who is “America’s Largest Catholic Newspaper” really meant for—all the baptized in the archdiocese, or just the crankier white conservatives? By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly April 17, 2018 Race U.S. Catholicism Columnists Media
Article A Pope Who Can Apologize There is symmetry between what Francis said in his apostolic exhortation and his own public apology By E. J. Dionne Jr. April 16, 2018 Pope Francis Donald Trump Abortion Immigration Web Exclusive
Poetry Poem | Otter “Winters in dark surf have given me / the silhouette of a wave rising / or just-spent, and the cold ocean / utters me like a whisper” By Michael Cadnum April 13, 2018 Poetry
Article Those Who Can’t Make Art, Teach Tom Rachman’s wan comedy gestures toward a legacy worth having By Kate Lucky April 13, 2018 Books Arts
