 1920s
|
|
1930s
|
|
1940s
|
|
1950s
|
|
1960s
|
|
1970s
|
|
1980s
|
|
1990s
|
|
2000s
|
|
2010s
|
 2010
|
|
2011
|
|
2012
|
|
2013
|
|
2014
|
|
2015
|
|
2016
|
|
2017
|
|
2018
|
|
January
|
|
February
|
|
March
|
|
April
|
|
May
|
 Vol. 145 Issue 008 (May 4 2018)
|
|
Vol. 145 Issue 009 (May 18 2018)
|
|
••Cover Page••
|
|
••Contents••
|
 Letters
|
|
|
|
LETTERS Bad translations, considering death and putting it off A COMMON LANGUAGE Gerald O'Collins and John Wilkins do an excellent job of pointing out the flawed preconceptions and resulting...
|
|
Hold Out for Joy
|
|
|
|
From the Editors Hold Out for Joy "The only great tragedy in life," wrote the French novelist Léon Bloy, "is not to become a saint." Pope Francis quotes this judgment _JL. approvingly in Gaudete...
|
|
The Bishops' Brief against the Ban
|
|
Moses, Paul
|
|
COLUMNIST Paul Moses The Bishops' Brief against the Ban WILL THE COURT'S CATHOLIC MAJORITY CARE? The U.S. Catholic bishops submitted a brief to the Supreme Court declaring that President Donald...
|
|
The Future of Academic Theology
|
|
Faggioli, Massimo; Hollerich, Michael
|
|
SHORT TAKES The Future of Academic Theology AN EXCHANGE Massimo Faggioli The estrangement between academic theology and the institutional church is one reason many younger Catholics are now...
|
|
Sweet Potato Elegy
|
|
Linstrom, John
|
|
SWEET POTATO ELEGY The box-dry grit of root and spackled dirt like some rock's underside turned up too long betrays no hint of affability or orange scarcely, nearly russet, whorled into a joint...
|
|
How Can It Be True?
|
|
McGowan, Jo
|
|
Jo McGowan How Can It Be True? CONFRONTING SEXUAL ABUSE BY THOSE YOU TRUST Ihave watched Spotlight—the acclaimed movie about the Boston Globes investigation into the systematic sexual abuse of...
|
|
Protecting Religious Liberty
|
|
PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
|
|
ARTICLES Protecting Religious Liberty Has That Become an Elusive Concept? Bernard G. Prusak Liberalism's Religion Cécile Laborde Harvard University Press, $35, 344 pp. During my first year of...
|
|
How Religion Got Trump
|
|
Woodward, Kenneth L.
|
|
How Religion Got Trump Faith in the 2016 Election Kenneth L. Woodward Ordinarily, a year is far too short a time to make a difference in the history of American religion, culture, or politics....
|
|
Ghost Trees
|
|
Hettich, Michael
|
|
GHOST TREES And now a certain kind of scientist says the weather in various parts of the world is growing exhausted and just wants to lie down for a nap, or maybe for a longer dose of oblivion,...
|
|
Between Worlds
|
|
Moss, Rose Rappoport
|
|
FICTION Between Worlds Rose Rappoport Moss When I was eight I watched my mother prepare the chicken for Sunday's roast. She lit a quill of paper, burned off the pin feathers and removed the gall,...
|
|
The Americans
|
|
Wren, Celia
|
|
TELEVISION Celia Wren Travel Agents with a Side of Assassination 'THE AMERICANS' ON FX For years, the plotting in the FX series The Americans struck me as fun but implausible. The series, now in...
|
|
Catholic Modern and Catholics on the Barricades
|
|
Steinfels, Peter
|
|
BOOKS Peter Steinfels Half the Story Catholic Modern The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church James Chappel Harvard University Press, $35, 352 pp. Catholics on the...
|
|
From Bacteria to Bach and Back
|
|
Schwenkler, John
|
|
John Schwenkler A Purpose-Driven Life From Bacteria to Bach and Back Daniel Dennett W. W. Norton, $18.95, 496 pp. The latest book from the philosopher Daniel Dennett is a work of tremendous...
|
|
After Ireland
|
|
Quinn, Peter
|
|
Peter Quinn Unstilled Longings After Ireland Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present Declan Kiberd Harvard University Press, $39.95, 560 pp. Declan Kiberd is the author of incisively...
|
|
The Art of the Wasted Day
|
|
Wren, Celia
|
|
Celia Wren Leisure Suits Her The Art of the Wasted Day Patricia Hampl Viking, $26, 288 pp. It's a long way from the Oracle at Delphi to the modern communicative agent that is the iPhone. Yet...
|
|
Mysticism in the Golden Age of Spain: 1500-1650
|
|
Cunningham, Lawrence S.
|
|
Lawrence S. Cunningham Action Heroes Mysticism in the Golden Age of Spain: 1500-1650 The Presence of God Volume 6 Bernard McGinn Herder & Herder/Crossroad, $74.95, 500 pp. This volume of...
|
|
Talk in Your Town
|
|
Redpath, Ann
|
|
LAST WORD Talk in Your Town Ann Redpath Everybody loves a good conversation. There's something about the language of conversation that's different from the language used in emails, texts, on the...
|
|
June
|
|
July
|
|
August
|
|
September
|
|
October
|
|
November
|
|
December
|
|
2019
|
|
2020s
|
|