Article Fr. Nonomen A reflection on the ministry of Fr. John Baran, known as Fr. Nonomen to our readers By Paul Baumann May 1, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Death and Dying Priesthood Vatican II
Article Faith & Poetics A collection of writings on the intersection of religious language and poetry By The Editors April 30, 2018 Poetry
Feature Georgetown’s Game-Changing Agreement As Georgetown’s example shows, Catholic colleges and universities have an opportunity to provide much needed moral leadership to higher education and workers’ rights By Joseph A. McCartin April 30, 2018 Higher Education Economy Social Justice U.S. Catholicism
Feature “Log Off” or Pray Prayer ultimately keeps all of our disagreements rooted where they belong: in God By B. D. McClay April 28, 2018 Spirituality U.S. Catholicism
Feature Self-Sacrifice & Secularism How a Catholic police officer became a Christian hero and a symbol of national unity in a very secular state By Christopher Schaefer April 27, 2018 Foreign Affairs Secularism and Modernity
Feature Household Names There is plain scriptural and historical evidence for women’s leadership in the early Roman church By Michael Peppard April 23, 2018 Women in the Church
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 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
Article The Gospel Isn’t Single-Issue In his apostolic exhortation Rejoice and Be Glad, Pope Francis warns against elevating any single social issue above all others By Paul Moses April 12, 2018 Pope Francis Immigration Abortion U.S. Catholicism
Feature ‘Constant in the Struggle’ John’s writing was suffused with a deep and hard-earned Christian faith, but never an unquestioning one By Patrick Jordan April 11, 2018 Spirituality Media
Article There Are Also Women There Women are usually in the background of papal statements, if they appear at all. Not this time By Rita Ferrone April 10, 2018 Pope Francis Gender
Article Pope Francis’s ‘Gaudete et Exsultate’ The call to holiness is universal, and it is incompatible with individualism, dogmatism, and sectarianism By Massimo Faggioli April 9, 2018 Pope Francis Secularism and Modernity Spirituality Web Exclusive
Article Get Rid of the Clergy We should distinguish between the sacrament of orders, which we still need, and the clerical state, which we would be better off without By Joe Holland April 9, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Bishops
Article Lost in Transition For many Catholics, Benedict, not Francis, remains the real guarantor of orthodoxy By Massimo Faggioli April 3, 2018 Pope Benedict XVI Pope Francis Theology Media
Article Sign Me Up How can we recover a robust sense of the fifty days of Easter? By Rita Ferrone April 2, 2018 Liturgy Theology U.S. Catholicism
Article When the Faithful Vote from Fear Catholic Church leaders are facing up to the fact that the faithful have helped elect a coalition united by opposition to immigrants By Paul Moses March 26, 2018 Immigration Race Foreign Affairs Pope Francis
Article Living in the Middle In both Joseph and Holy Saturday, we are granted images of what our lives are like By B. D. McClay March 21, 2018 Theology Spirituality
Article Ecumenical Generosity There remains something really distinctive and moving about the approach to the theology George Lindbeck represented By Karen Kilby March 20, 2018 Theology Ecumenism Higher Education
Feature A Precarious Unity? Ross Douthat’s book suggests that unless Pope Francis’s liberalizing agenda is resisted, the church will fall into chaos By Paul Baumann March 19, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Pope Francis Vatican II Books
Article Five Years of Francis How Pope Francis has changed the public face of Catholicism in the U.S., and where the promise his papacy has fallen short thus far By John Gehring March 19, 2018 Pope Francis U.S. Catholicism Bishops Sexual-abuse Crisis
Article St. Patrick vs. Steven Bannon in Rome As Italy sorts out whether it will build a government based on antipathy for immigrants, St. Patrick (a Roman citizen) offers a timely message By Paul Moses March 17, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Foreign Affairs Immigration
Feature Imperfect Cities of God This Lent, Ahmed Mater’s exhibition challenges us to scrutinize our own cities: in what ways are they changing, and for whom are they being built? By Griffin Oleynick March 17, 2018 Arts Muslim-Christian Relations Spirituality
Article Holy Water, Holy Feet Footwashing reminds us that we are fragile creatures By Isaac S. Villegas March 16, 2018 Spirituality Liturgy Immigration
Article Protest & Protection What closing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was meant to accomplish By Santiago Ramos March 14, 2018 Ecumenism Jewish-Christian Relations Foreign Affairs
Article Issues of Blood There is some one pain in the world to which every one of us is called to witness and perhaps ease By Christian Wiman March 14, 2018 Spirituality The Last Word
Article When the Peripheries Come to You Why is Catholicism still so Eurocentric? By Massimo Faggioli March 13, 2018 Pope Francis Bishops U.S. Catholicism
Article Succor Punch Forget the tax code. How should Christians think about charitable giving? By Cathleen Kaveny March 13, 2018 Domestic Affairs U.S. Catholicism Economy Columnists Ethics
Article A Bishop Against Border Fences Standing with immigrants against the militarization of the border makes moral and factual sense By John Gehring March 8, 2018 Immigration Bishops U.S. Catholicism Donald Trump
Article No Compromises In his translation of the New Testament, David Bentley Hart delights in challenging convention and proposing novel terms By Luke Timothy Johnson March 7, 2018 Books Theology
Article Is God in This Picture? Championing a man like Trump in the name of the culture wars will only lead to the decline of Christian influence in America By The Editors March 6, 2018 Donald Trump Secularism and Modernity Domestic Affairs Editorial
Article Thunder Entered Her Munch’s Mary is strange and unfamiliar, but she’s a Mary for all of us By B. D. McClay March 6, 2018 Arts Spirituality
Article Canon Fodder E. Christian Brugger argues that the Council of Trent (1545–1563) taught unequivocally that marriage is indissoluble. Is that true? By Thomas Noble March 5, 2018 Theology Books
Article ‘We Were Different’ The long and cyclical legacy of nativism within the American Catholic laity By Julia G. Young March 5, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Immigration Race
Article Santo? Dubito We don’t need to keep canonizing former popes By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly March 3, 2018 Pope Francis Pope John Paul II Columnists
Feature None of Us Faces Judgment Alone ‘Jacob and His Twelve Sons’ shows us exactly what we need to see as we continue our Lenten pilgrimage By Griffin Oleynick March 3, 2018 Arts Spirituality
Article Cardinal Sarah Does It Again Cardinal Sarah—despite holding a mainstream office—really does not speak for the mainstream of the church By Rita Ferrone February 27, 2018 Bishops Liturgy U.S. Catholicism Pope Francis
Feature After Genocide Is it possible to make sense, theologically, of interreligious strife in the Balkans? By Thomas Albert Howard February 26, 2018 Foreign Affairs Ecumenism
Article America in the Meantime 'Where We Are' implies that as Americans we now find ourselves in a precarious situation, and demands that we take a stand By Griffin Oleynick February 24, 2018 Arts Spirituality Domestic Affairs
Article America’s Preacher Billy Graham always hoped that his preaching would produce a great moral and social revolution By Kenneth L. Woodward February 23, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs Ecumenism
Article Extraordinary Divisions There can be no reconciliation between Catholics that does not involve some kind of liturgical reconciliation By Massimo Faggioli February 21, 2018 Vatican II U.S. Catholicism Liturgy Pope Benedict XVI
Article Serpents & Doves Resolving the conflict between China’s two Catholic communities will require very careful compromises By The Editors February 21, 2018 Editorial Pope Francis Foreign Affairs Bishops
Article The Scandal of Firing LGBT Catholics Punitive actions against LGBT Catholics do not reflect the fact that we are at a moment that requires prayerful discernment By John Gehring February 16, 2018 LGBTQ issues Sexuality U.S. Catholicism
Feature The Feminist Wife The ambitious woman, the wife, the mother: we are each more complex than the roles we play By Kate Lucky February 15, 2018 Women in the Church Sexuality
Article Lenten Hours As Lent invites us to slow down, rich medieval art helps us see God’s presence in time By Griffin Oleynick February 14, 2018 Arts Spirituality
Article Fake News, Murder & the Philippine Bishops The bishops saw how manipulation of social media helps to build public support for the summary slaying of drug dealers By Paul Moses February 13, 2018 Foreign Affairs Bishops Pope Francis Media
Article Democracy Is the Problem? Understanding the return of Catholic anti-liberalism By Massimo Faggioli February 12, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Vatican II Pope John Paul II Contraception mandate
Feature No More Nukes? Are we at last on the eve of the postnuclear millennium? By Michael C. Desch, Gerard F. Powers February 9, 2018 War and Peace Domestic Affairs Foreign Affairs Pope Francis
Article A Communion of Sinners & Saints Before becoming a communion of saints we are first of all a communion of sinners By Jerry Ryan February 8, 2018 Spirituality
