Religious Life

Article

Sacred Stuff

Essays by a master medievalist, ranging from painting to purgatory, monasticism to monarchy highlight the fact that Christianity has long been masterialistic

By Francis Oakley

February 11, 2019

Feature

Taming the Demon

Our modern obsession with workplace efficiency has a simple answer: the prayerful, peaceful pace of Benedictine monastic labor

By Jonathan Malesic

February 2, 2019

Article

Why We Came

We asked you to tell us your stories of why you came, left, or stayed in the church. In this final installment, two readers share their conversion to Catholicism

January 17, 2019

U.S. Catholicism

Feature

The People at the Center of the World

The Met’s permanent collection can tell you a great deal about powerful empires. The Armenia exhibit gives us a view from the margins

By Robert Rubsam

December 23, 2018

Article

Merton & Blake, Revisited

Thomas Merton and William Blake were unorthodox religious visionaries, joined by a shared predilection for the paradoxes at the heart of Christianity

By Michael W. Higgins

December 8, 2018

Article

‘The Nun’s Story’ Revisited

However much we may admire the austerities and asceticism of pre-Vatican II religious life, the film depicts a closed world to which we cannot return

By Paul Baumann

December 4, 2018

Women in the Church

Must Reads

Politics

Suiting Up for Team Racist

Bishop Stowe spoke up about the racism of Donald Trump’s MAGA campaign, and spoke the simple truth. Let’s hope it’s the start of a trend

By Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

February 7, 2019

Religion

Narrowing the Universal Church

Recent debates in higher education over who counts as an “authentic Catholic” have the unintended effect of splintering the universal Body of Christ

By Julia G. Young

February 6, 2019

Culture

Somewhere Else

Mammon can never be God. We need ways of valuing ourselves and our neighbors that are not indexed to the market

By Ian Marcus Corbin

February 10, 2019

Books

Surviving Survivalism

Westover tells the story of her soul, not her accomplishments. Becoming an individual through paideia, she discovers herself as a relational being

By Mike St. Thomas

February 1, 2019

Collections

Why We Came. Why We Left. Why We Stay.

The Catholic faith is first of all a gift, one a person must choose to keep; the days of Catholicism by default are behind us

December 3, 2018

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