Matthew Boudway

Article

Dry Bones

A new play about a reunion of four friends, all conservative Catholics, is quietly heroic. It reveals the limits of rhetoric as it probes the nature of suffering.

By Matthew Boudway

November 12, 2019

U.S. Catholicism

Secularism and Modernity

Fiction

Article

When Indissoluble Means Dissoluble

Perhaps the plain meaning of Christ’s words about marriage is not by itself enough to understand the Church’s fairly complex teaching on the subject

By Matthew Boudway

October 26, 2017

Theology

Sexuality

Feature

Worthy of His Name

Wim Wenders talks about his new documentary on Pope Francis

June 1, 2018

Article

Wittgenstein's Iconoclasm

By Matthew Boudway

January 17, 2017

Article

Elsewhere

By Matthew Boudway

November 18, 2016

Article

Elsewhere

By Matthew Boudway

November 14, 2016

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