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ARTICLE Ahead of His Time— And Behind It Paul Lakeland The complicated legacy of Bishop John England Amid all the heart-searching that the Catholic Church is doing in response to the ongoing...

Theology in a neoliberal age (June 2020)

ARTICLE Spiritual Resistance Paul Lakeland Theology in the age of neoliberalism The many current crises in our world all have something in common. Whether they are humanitarian or economic,...

The Splintering of the American Mind (May 2019)

Paul Lakeland College as Department Store The Splintering of the American Mind Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today's College Campuses William Egginton Bloomsbury, $28, 272...

Revelation and Convergence (February 2018)

Paul Lakeland The Habit of Seeing Revelation and Convergence Flannery O’Connor and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Edited by Mark Bosco, SJ, and Brent Little. CUA Press, $39.95, 242...

The Violet Hour (July 2016)

BOOKS Paul Lakeland The Last Page The Violet Hour Great Writers at the End Katie Roiphe The Dial Press, $28, 320 pp. It is a truism of fiction writing that the author should write from...

Shadows of Revolution & At the Existentialist Cafe (May 2016)

Paul Lakeland They Always Had Paris At the Existentialist Cafe Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails Sarah Bakewell Other Press, $25, 448 pp. Afacility at writing about serious thinking with a...

A God in Ruins (September 2015)

Paul Lakeland After 'Life After Life' A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson Little, Brown and Co., $28, 468 pp. Readers of Kate Atkinson's previous novel, Life After Life (Commonweal, March 10, 2014),...

Christmas Critics (December 2014)

Paul Lakeland I think a lot of us turn to reading old favorites around Christmastime, maybe a volume of Dickens or P. G. Wodehouse, though I do know one person who goes a-wassail-ing with Karl...

Life After Life (March 2014)

Paul Lakeland Born-Again Fiction Life After Life Kate Atkinson Little, Brown and Co., $18, 560 pp. If it is only at its end that a life becomes possessed of shape and definition, that it can be...

Field Test (April 2012)

Paul Lakeland Field Test The Catholic Studies Reader Edited by James T. Fisher and Margaret M. McGuinness Fordham University Press, $30, 350 pp. I remember the day five years ago when the...

Reading Jesus by Mary Gordon (April 2010)

Paul Lakeland Sola Scriptura Reading Jesus A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels Mary Gordon Pantheon, $24.95, 228 pp. For many centuries the Catholic Church kept the Gospels from the eyes...

Say You're One of Them (March 2009)

F rom Enoch Emery in Wise Blood to Miles and Flora in Henry James’s Turn of the Screw, young people in fiction are often privileged interpreters of reality. Maybe it’s the absence of an...

Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church (September 2008)

Commonweal . September 12, 2008 A Bishop Speaks nounced by several Catholic bishops. Yet Confronting Power and Sex makes a much bigger claim in its insistence that the two real sources of...

Not So Heterodox (January 2007)

Not So Heterodox In Defense of Roger Haight Paul Laheland T he work of Jesuit theologian Roger Haight seems to arouse the strongest reactions. From the Vatican to reviewers in the pages of...

My Name Is Legion (May 2005)

t",l Nor is Bacevich completely persuasive when he assigns to the category of the new American militarism all those who support a more aggressive foreign policy. Conservative Evangelical...

Scandal (March 2005)

Scandal 101 What I Learned Teaching the SexualAbuse Crisis Paul Laheland T oward the end of the first week of teaching my course "The Crisis in the Church," one of my more thoughtful...

The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely: (October 2004)

MEMORIES, LEGENDS & LIES The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely Benedict Kiely L) 'id R. GUdine, c24.95, ?34 pp. Paul Lakeland enedict Kiely is a great Irish writer, though not one as well...

My Struggle for Freedom by Hans Kung The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America by David Carlin An American Conversion by Deal W Hudson (March 2004)

him, conciliarism was essentially a teaching about the shared responsibility of the whole episcopate, whether gathered in council or scattered in the dioceses. The demise of conciliarism was both...

CONSULTING THE LAITY (June 2003)

Consulting the laity It's no secret that several bishops aren't very fond of Voice of the Faithful (VOTF). The organization has acquired, at least in some circles, a reputation as a front...

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