Article A Gentile’s Philip Roth Among Philip Roth's immense gifts was the gift of friendship. By Jack Miles May 29, 2018 Sexuality Spirituality Books
Article Keeping the Rhythm After a miscarriage, Martin Luther's classic hymn, "A Mighty Fortress is Our God," provides inspiration and solace to a poet and his wife By Maurice Manning May 28, 2018 Spirituality Music Poetry
Feature Civic Virtue & the Common Good Four authors discuss forming a Catholic political imagination By Robert W. McElroy, John T. McGreevy, Cathleen Kaveny, Matthew Sitman May 25, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Bishops Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Spirituality
Feature Getting to Gethsemani How to live a life of separation and then share the fruits of your contemplation with the rest of the world? By G. W. Smith May 17, 2018 Spirituality Religious Life
Article Action Heroes Bernard McGinn is at pains to erase caricatures of Spanish mystics By Lawrence S. Cunningham May 17, 2018 Books Spirituality Religious Life
Article A Final Hospitality Why do we hold death at such a remove, making us all novices at it? By Leah Libresco May 16, 2018 Spirituality Death and Dying
Article Drawing Lesson How could we incorporate my sister into our faith without forcing it upon her or overwhelming her with doctrine? By Lilly Constance May 16, 2018 Immigration U.S. Catholicism Spirituality
Article Hold Out for Joy Holiness should neither scare nor bore us By The Editors May 8, 2018 Pope Francis Spirituality Theology Editorial
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
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
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 On the Mighty River of Convenience We are torn between our priorities as consumers and our values as people By Rand Richards Cooper April 9, 2018 Secularism and Modernity Spirituality Economy
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 Cheating Death The Silicon Valley entrepreneurs currently waging a war on death should rethink their project By Mary McDonough April 4, 2018 Death and Dying Spirituality Secularism and Modernity
Article She Shall Not Be Moved Amid the testimonies of the #MeToo movement, practicing mixed martial arts helped me to cast aside timidity and love my body the way God has always loved it By Lilly Constance April 2, 2018 Domestic Affairs Gender Media Spirituality
Article A Visual Pilgrimage through Lent A series of spiritual meditations with some help from a different art gallery each week By Griffin Oleynick March 31, 2018 Arts Spirituality
Article Quit Trying to ‘Fix’ Baseball Baseball has a contemplative dimension that simply isn’t a feature of other games By Gregory Hillis March 27, 2018 Spirituality Secularism and Modernity
Feature Christ in the Wreckage Danh Vo’s art cautions us to be wary of the cheap grace that propels our headlong rush toward Easter By Griffin Oleynick March 24, 2018 Arts Spirituality
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
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 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
Feature Hunger for Home Tarsila do Amaral’s art helps us look beyond the momentary gray of grief and revel in the unfading colors of joy By Griffin Oleynick March 10, 2018 Arts Spirituality
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
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 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
Feature ‘Cast a Cold Eye’ Christianity may debunk death, but it also regards it as an abomination. What do we do with it? By Terry Eagleton February 17, 2018 Death and Dying Theology Spirituality
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 How to Fell a Tree What are the costs and dignities found in physical labor? By Mark Phillips February 12, 2018 Domestic Affairs Spirituality Books
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
Article The Comedy in Ash & Roses Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day coincide this year like a bad joke, but there is truth in it By B. D. McClay February 5, 2018 Liturgy Spirituality
Article A Burial at Gethsemani Contemplating our mortality can draw us deeper into our communities By Gregory Hillis February 3, 2018 Death and Dying Spirituality U.S. Catholicism The Last Word Religious Life
Article Teilhard’s Gamble Teilhard is a genius, a unique and providential combination of the scientist and the mystic By Thomas Merton January 30, 2018 Evolution From the Archives Spirituality Theology
Article The ‘Honest to God’ Debate Thomas Merton takes issue with Anglican Bishop J. A. T. Robinson’s book that argues that the Christian image has become inadequate in the modern world By Thomas Merton January 30, 2018 Theology Secularism and Modernity Spirituality From the Archives
Article Monk & Hunters Am I a monk the same way he is a hunter? By Thomas Merton January 30, 2018 Spirituality Religious Life From the Archives
Article Schoolboy in England Like practically everyone else in our stupid and godless society, I was to consider these two years as "my religious phase." By Thomas Merton January 30, 2018 Spirituality
Feature Active & Contemplative Orders Is there a paradox between the active and contemplative lives? By Thomas Merton January 29, 2018 Spirituality Religious Life Theology From the Archives
Article Reality, Art, & Prayer Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order By Thomas Merton January 29, 2018 Spirituality Arts
Article Elegy for A Trappist “Maybe the martyrology until today / Has found no fitting word to describe you” By Thomas Merton January 29, 2018 Poetry Spirituality
Feature Is Mysticism Normal? Is mysticism just for some extraordinary souls? By Thomas Merton January 29, 2018 Spirituality From the Archives
Article The Psalms as Poetry The function of the Psalms is to make us share in the poetic experience of the men who wrote them By Thomas Merton January 29, 2018 Poetry Spirituality From the Archives
Article Poetry: Eight Distillations “He talked of nothingness until it wasn’t. / He bragged his gravity into God.” By Christian Wiman January 24, 2018 Poetry Spirituality
Article Don’t Over-Spiritualize ‘Temptation’ When we pray to be spared temptation, we’re asking for something very practical By Nicholas Frankovich January 17, 2018 Pope Francis Spirituality Theology Liturgy
Article ‘Be Such as God Made You’ Rethinking the spirituality of body image with some help from the ancient church By Amanda C. Knight January 11, 2018 Spirituality Theology Women in the Church The Last Word
Article A Christmas When Music Invited Me In Life is short, the world beautiful, and love urgently necessary By Rand Richards Cooper December 21, 2017 Music Spirituality
Article Chalkware Theology By building a new crèche each year for his community, one professor highlights the sacramentality of the everyday By Michael DeSanctis December 16, 2017 Arts Spirituality
Article A Burnt-Out Case The spiritual costs of the way we work By Jonathan Malesic December 14, 2017 Spirituality Theology
Feature Wonders Never Cease How the modern period arose and how it has become another era, and in need of another name By Marilynne Robinson December 11, 2017 Secularism and Modernity Theology Spirituality
Article What Now? The future, toward which hope is always oriented, seems bleak. But grace can break through By The Editors December 5, 2017 Spirituality Donald Trump War and Peace Editorial
