Sexuality

Article

‘Nodes of Intensity’

Garth Greenwell’s new novel plumbs the physicality of queer desire, even as it gestures at the transcendence and sacramentality of sexual experience.

By Anthony Domestico

January 16, 2020

Truth & Dignity

Journalist Michael O’Loughlin joins associate editor Matt Sitman for a behind-the-scenes conversation about his new podcast series “Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS & the Catholic Church.”

Article

Online Letters | A church in flux, & the last Beat

Readers discuss the anonymous article on abortion, annulments, the development of doctrine, and the work of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

By The Editors

December 10, 2019

Article

Letters | Divorce and remarriage in the early church

A reader takes issue with how David Bentley Hart interprets the historical record on divorce and remarriage in the church. Hart responds.

By The Editors

November 1, 2019

Sexuality

Theology

Article

Last of the Beats

Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s one hundredth birthday in March was the occasion for a lot of celebration in San Francisco. His new novel, less so.

By Kaya Oakes

August 30, 2019

Article

Resurrection without Redemption

Abel Ferrara’s new biopic about Pier Paolo Pasolini evinces a highly personal, anti-institutional strain of Catholicism—where grace abounds in squalor and scandal.

June 17, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

Misenchantment

Mammon has seduced us. The only true path of resistance to capitalism’s destructive energies is one that leads away from the logic of markets.

By David Bentley Hart

January 6, 2020

Religion

A Cathedral Not Made by Hands

In an old-growth forest, everything is connected. No individual plant or animal, and indeed no species, is an island. As Pope Francis warns, we should pay attention.

By Vincent Miller

December 30, 2019

Culture

Pilgrims

Had I known before that the greatest gift of the road was the love of another human being? Of course I had. But I had not fully understood.

By Kathleen Hill

January 10, 2020

Books

Philosopher in the Ring

What can boxing teach us about the good life? Gordon Marino riffs on Sartre, Kierkegaard, and Camus, finding that in order to save our lives, we must risk loving.

By Steven Knepper

January 8, 2020

Collections

Injustice at the Border

The suffering of migrants and refugees on the border cannot be forgotten. Nor can the Trump administration’s deliberate cruelty toward them.

By The Editors

October 28, 2019