Article A Trip to the Orkneys & Into the Past Desolate, wind-swept islands off the coast of Scotland occasion a traveler’s musings on sacred spaces and climate change By Paul Baumann October 17, 2018 Climate Change Columnists Spirituality
Article Time to Leave? In the face of the church's manifold sins, we stay because we long for what the church teaches about human life to be true By Paul Baumann September 23, 2018 Sexual-abuse Crisis Clericalism Secularism and Modernity
Article An Endangered Inheritance A visit to the under-appreciated FDR memorial in Washington helps us recall basic truths about the purpose of democratic governance By Paul Baumann September 5, 2018 Arts Columnists Donald Trump
Article Remembering Paul Horgan The Catholic director of the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University was also an accomplished novelist and historian By Paul Baumann August 21, 2018 Fiction Books
Article Francis & the Death Penalty I must admit to somewhat retrograde views on the moral legitimacy of the death penalty. I am in all likelihood wrong about this, but I have my reasons By Paul Baumann August 15, 2018 Capital Punishment Pope Francis Domestic Affairs
Article Making Sense of Russia Correspondence between Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton on the myth of "Crucified Russia" partly explains Donald Trump’s bizarre attraction to Vladimir Putin By Paul Baumann July 26, 2018 Donald Trump Foreign Affairs Russia