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IssueVol. 148 Issue 010 (November 1 2021)
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Paid articleLetters
On leaving Afghanistan ‘RIGHT’ TO DO? I was disheartened to see the subject line “Leaving Afghanistan is the right thing to do” (“An Unwinnable War,” September). It felt like clickbait designed...
Paid articleMake them pay
Make Them Pay Across the world, there’s an ongoing reckoning with the Pandora Papers’ revelations about shadowy offshore accounts and the wealthy elites who hide their money in them. From corrupt...
Paid articleSeeking asylum
Simon, Isabella
The Antisocial Network I n terms of measurable damage to Facebook, the revelations of whistleblower Frances Haugen probably did less than the global outage it suffered around the same time she...
Paid articleFrance's sex-abuse crisis
Faggioli, Massimo
Sex Abuse & the French Church The comprehensive report compiled by the independent commission investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in France leaves little doubt about the scale...
Paid articleContext & commitment
Imbelli, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Robert P.
Context & Commitment Two responses to Peter Steinfels on the bishops, Eucharist, and abortion Cardinal Blase J. Cupich In his article “Separate Challenges” (September 2021), Peter Steinfels...
Paid articleInside the synod
Ivereigh, Austen
Speak Boldly, Listen Carefully Inside the synod At the start of July, in preparation for what has become known as the “Synod on Synodality,” the general secretariat of the...
Paid articleGoing gray
Reynolds, Susan Bigelow
Going Gray November reminds us of the communion of saints and the company of the dead. I’ve been observing with some tenderness the ways in which my friends are going gray. One at...
Paid articleBethlehem Farm, West Virginia
Munch, Regina
“Welcome home.” This is the greeting all visitors receive at Bethlehem Farm, a Catholic intentional community dedicated to service, hospitality, and simple living. As I arrive at the community’s...
Paid articleSanta Maria de la Vid, New Mexico
Oleynick, Griffin
“To tell you the truth, the parish was nearly moribund when we first arrived,” admitted Abbot Joel Garner, OPraem, head of the Norbertine community of Santa Maria de la Vid in Albuquerque, New...
Paid articleMarianist Lay Communities
Anda, Neomi De
Marianist Lay Communities Pope Francis’s call for all of the baptized to be part of the upcoming synodal process has been inspiring to many Catholics, if frustrating for those who feel...
Paid articleInterview: Paola Piscitelli & Andrea Bartoli
Elie, Paul
‘Companions on the Path’ An interview with Sant’Egidio’s Paola Piscitelli & Andrea Bartoli Paul Elie Fifty-three years after it was founded in Rome by young Catholics moved by the spirit of...
Paid articleThe Dominican Sisters of Peace
Killian, Ann
The Dominican Sisters of Peace When Sr. Mary Daniel, OP, entered the Dominican Sisters of St Mary’s, New Orleans, in 1958, she thought she knew what the rest of her life would be like: life in a...
Paid article"Incarnation Monastery and New Camaldoli, California"
Oakes, Kaya
Incarnation Monastery in Berkeley and New Camaldoli in Big Sur, California I. VIGILS The genius of the monastic life is its balance. The balance of prayer and work, ora et labora, is...
Paid articleThe Knights of Peter Claver
Warner, Lauren
The Knights of Peter Claver I n the early twentieth century, many lay Catholics formed fraternal organizations—associations of mutual aid, service, and community—for support in the face of...
Paid articleCasa Juan Diego, Texas
Zwick, Louise
‘Don’t Worry, This Is a Catholic House’ Louise Zwick Casa Juan Diego in Houston, Texas Our work at Casa Juan Diego in Houston, Texas, changed abruptly during the first months of the pandemic....
Paid articleMordecai Would Not Bow Down
East, Brad
Still Supersessionist? BRAD EAST There is no sin found in Christian history either so vile or so ubiquitous as the reflexive repulsion of the Jewish people. That repulsion is twofold. Its...
Paid articleHouse of Sticks
Gee, Melody S.
Fractured Remembrances MELODY S. GEE Like all memoirists, Ly Tran accesses her past through hazy and incomplete memories. The first chapter of her debut, House of Sticks, opens with Tran being...
Paid articleBooks in Brief
BOOKS IN BRIEF The murder of eleven Jews at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in October 2018 was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history. But Mark Oppenheimer, former New York Times...
Paid articleMessing About in Boats
Domestico, Anthony
Critical Loitering ANTHONY DOMESTICO In The Art of Attention, Donald Revell praises Robert Creeley’s poem “Oh Max” by clocking its speed: “It certainly does go fast, and then faster....
Paid article"Elegy for Our 130-Year-Old Catalpa"
Mariani, Paul
ELEGY FOR OUR 130-YEAR-OLD CATALPA Paul Mariani Our dear catalpa, whose angel-headed blossoms flowered above us without fail each June for over fifty years, our beloved, stalwart, silent...
Paid articleLeonard Cohen's covenants
Pally, Marcia
Babylon & Boogie Street Leonard Cohen’s sixty-year exploration of covenants broken and kept Since Leonard Cohen’s death in 2016, a great many things have been written about the...
Paid article"The Poet Retires to Plato's Republic"
Calvert, Drew
THE POET RETIRES TO PLATO’S REPUBLIC Drew Calvert It’s easier here, more sensical. One’s equity can accrue. Plus, my condo’s got a great view of the military parades. What more is there to...
Paid article'Turner's Modern World'
Lobo, Nicole-Ann
Cloud, Steam, and Soot ‘Turner’s Modern World’ at the Kimbell Art Museum The Fighting Temeraire is one of the eighteenth century’s most recognizable paintings. It depicts the lithe,...
Paid article"On Earth…"
Spear, Susan Delaney
ON EARTH… Susan Delaney Spear Blessed be the lettuce pickers the wards and waifs the overweight and underfed the unnamed the average the slandered Blessed be the misunderstood the latch-key...
Paid articleThey were here
Walden, Daniel
They Were Here DANIEL WALDEN I remember, or think I remember, what it was like to take a plastic, black permanent marker in my hand and, after a glance over my shoulder to assure myself that I...
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