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IssueVol. 150 Issue 010 (November 11 2023)
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Paid articleLetters
Robert Bellah’s socialism, the war in Ukraine, and Catholic higher education SERIOUS ANTI-CAPITALISM Thank you for Matthew Rose’s excel­lent article on Robert Bellah, “Serious Play” (July/August...
Paid articleThe Israel-Palestine conflict
FROM THE EDITORS ‘Moral Clarity’? In joint statements about Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel, which left more than 1,400 people dead—including more than a thousand civilians—both U.S....
Paid articleThe Polish elections
Munch, Regina
Reading ‘Laudate Deum’ Pope Francis concludes Laudate Deum, his new apostolic exhor­tation on the climate crisis, by pointing to carbon emissions in the United States and condemning the...
Paid articleSupreme Court ethics reform
Doyle, Miles
Supreme Chutzpah On May 4, 1969, Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas resigned fol­lowing revelations that he had accepted $20,000 in payment from a foundation controlled by Louis E. Wolfson, a friend...
Paid articleA renewed National Labor Relations Board
Mazewski, Matt
MATT MAZEWSKI A Star Recruit Under Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB is changing how labor law is enforced. When evaluating the job per­formance of government officials, I like to apply one of the few...
Paid articleResponding to migrants in New York City
Moses, Paul
PAUL MOSES ‘When an Alien Resides with You’ Responding to the migrant influx in New York City New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams is fond of speaking about how his religious faith guides him. “I...
Paid articleA dispatch from the Synod
Ivereigh, Austen
AUSTEN IVEREIGH It Works A report from the Synod In the early decades of the twen­ty-first century, historians will say, the Catholic Church sought a new way of operating that would allow it to...
Paid articleThe Real Presence in the Eucharist
Cavadini, John
JOHN CAVADINI The Eucharist & the Poor The real meaning of the Real Presence As many readers will know, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is leading a three-year National...
Paid articleA symposium on posthumanism
Gertz, Gilbert Meilaender, John F. Haught, Nolen; Pasquale, Frank
Better Off Without Us? A symposium Gilbert Meilaender John F. Haught Nolen Gertz Frank Pasquale Every day comes more news of the devastating consequences of cli­mate change: floods and...
Paid articleFr. Luigi Portarulo
Stapinski, Helene
From Bernalda to Bleecker St. Helene Stapinski A young Italian priest makes his way in New York City. Fr. Luigi Portarulo steps through the tall red doors of La Scuola D’Italia into a maelstrom...
Paid article'Fallen Leaves'
Leaves', 'Fallen
ALEXANDER STERN Getting Through Life Aki Kaurismäki’s ‘Fallen Leaves’ Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki was once asked why there is so lit­tle camera movement in his films. “That’s a nuisance when...
Paid article'Adam's Lament'
Stein, Gary
ADAM’S LAMENT Gary Stein Like many fathers God had no patience for infants. So he made us older but naïve. We never needed to crawl, bruise bone on stone or feel the sting of his rod. We...
Paid articleThe art of Julian Montague
Malesic, Jonathan
JONATHAN MALESIC Cartography of Abandonment The serious subtext of Julian Montague’s ‘cosmic jokes’ Last spring, a shopping cart drifted through my Dallas neighborhood. It was the sort with a...
Paid article'Dead Man Walking' at the Metropolitan Opera
Oleynick, Griffin
GRIFFIN OLEYNICK Redemption Songs ‘Dead Man Walking’ at the Metropolitan Opera It’s been thirty years since the pub­lication of Dead Man Walking, Sr. Helen Prejean’s bestselling memoir about her...
Paid articleTwo poems by David Lehman
Two Poems by David Lehman CHAMPION The crowd loves the defeated champion. Before the champion lost, he never had their love. It took defeat to bring them to their feet and cheer for the...
Paid articleHomelands by Timothy Garton Ash
Donahue, William Collins
‘Now Comes the Reckoning’ WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE It is a window and a mirror. Through it, we observe the growth of the European Union from its humble beginnings in 1952 as the six-mem­ber...
Paid articleThe 272 by Rachel L. Swarns
Chatelain, Marcia
Sold by the Jesuits BY MARCIA CHATELAIN In the early spring of 1860, E. M. Dudley of Livingston County, Kentucky, ran an ad in the local newspaper offer­ing a “Two Hundred Dollars Reward” for the...
Paid articleSelf-Made by Tara Isabella Burton
East, Brad
The Brand Called You BRAD EAST I am what I want, and I have the power within myself to make myself what I want to be, if only I find the will to activate this inner potential—or rather, to...
Paid articleHell to Pay by Michael Lind
McCartin, Joseph A.
The Scourge of Wage Suppression JOSEPH A. MCCARTIN In his latest book, Hell to Pay, the prolific public intellectual Michael Lind offers a compelling analysis of an urgent problem: too many...
Paid articleThe House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone
Hijkoop, Marcus
Holding His Pose MARCUS HIJKOOP The Italian novelist Domenico Starnone has long been rumored to be the writer behind the works of the best-selling, pseudonymous author Elena Ferran­te. In 2005,...
Paid articleBOOKS IN BRIEF
BOOKS IN BRIEF Governments care about religion again—at least, they see religious leaders and movements as important to collaborate with, manage, shut down, or co-opt. Michael D. Driessen’s The...
Paid articleThe canticle of St. Francis
Brady, Kathleen
Jongleurs of God KATHLEEN BRADY Modern technology seldom comes to mind in connec­tion with Francis of Assisi, yet there is one device that he would have prized. A smartphone with a music app...
Paid article'Pebble'
Swann, Brian
PEBBLE Brian Swann Under clouds cold as blue clay, light seeps into milkweed so it speaks monarchs, and the wind sings stones with voices from where there are none, from even before there...
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