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IssueVol. 150 Issue 005 (May 1 2023)
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Paid articleLetters
Compassion in death, comfort in music MAID IS A MERCY Thanks to Associate Rector Cole Hartin (“Assisted Suicide & the Cure of Souls,” March) for raising an urgent question: whether and how...
Paid articleFox and the Dominion Lawsuit
FROM THE EDITORS Outfoxed The $787.5 million that Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems is the largest publicly known defamation settlement by an American media company. Many who’d...
Paid articleA Nicaraguan Bishop in Prison
Ramos, Santiago
Indefensible “Self Defense” A sixteen-year-old boy in Kansas City was shot after he rang the wrong doorbell. A twenty-year-old woman in upstate New York was fatally shot after she and her...
Paid articleColorado River Negotiations
Simon, Isabella
­­­­ ­­ Running Dry Deadline after deadline has passed, but the seven states that draw their water from the Colorado River system have yet to agree on the cuts required to save the...
Paid articlePriests and the Right to Privacy
Kaveny, Cathleen
SHORT TAKES CATHLEEN KAVENY Chasing the Unchaste Do priests have a right to privacy? In March 2023, the Washington Post detailed how a group of Catholic conservatives spent millions of...
Paid articleFamine in Kenya
Kilby, Karen
KAREN KILBY Famine and the Living God Letter from Kenya “I believe in the living God.” The bishop of Marsabit repeated this several times during our brief courtesy visit. Most strik­ingly,...
Paid articleThe Reputation of John Paul II in Poland
Kosicki, Piotr H.
PIOTR H. KOSICKI Poland’s Memory Offensive A campaign to protect the reputation of John Paul II challenges NATO and silences victims of sex abuse. Apparently, it is in NATO’s interest to...
Paid articleRev. Traci Blackmon
Dorrien, Gary
GARY DORRIEN ‘The Gospel is a Social Gospel’ Rev. Traci Blackmon and prophetic Black faith The idea that churches must be involved in political struggles for justice and peace to be...
Paid article‘Not Good Company’
Poreba, Elizabeth
POETRY NOT GOOD COMPANY Elizabeth Poreba Plastics are on my mind, floods. Any pause  in the conversation, I come up with some  Sorry Business, Aboriginal term for mourning.  Doleful,...
Paid articleTaking natality seriously
Banks, Jennifer
Reckoning With Birth Jennifer Banks What would happen if we took our natality as seriously as our mortality? Birth is humanity’s greatest under-explored subject. I had that thought over...
Paid articleUkraine and the Ethics of War
Winright, Tobias; Cavanaugh, William T.
Ukraine and the Ethics of War An exchange The Possibility of a Just War Tobias Winright While this year marks the sixtieth anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in terris,...
Paid article‘The Power Hose’
Piero, W. S. Di
POETRY THE POWER HOSE W. S. Di Piero They leveled what was left of the funeral pyres, Set apart the cold bones, ashes chilled by cold, And covered over these ashes and bones....
Paid articleGlimpses of Ukraine
Buskey, Megan
A Singular Country Glimpses of Ukraine MEGAN BUSKEY I first started traveling to Ukraine in the early 2000s. At first, it was mainly because of my heritage: my mother is Ukrainian and I have...
Paid articleGianfranco Rosi
Oleynick, Griffin
A Pilgrimage in Reverse An interview with Gianfranco Rosi Gianfranco Rosi is one of Italy’s most important living documentary filmmakers. His films include El Sicario, Room 164 (2010), Sacro...
Paid article‘The Fabelmans’ & ‘Aftersun’
Rubsam, Robert
ROBERT RUBSAM Frozen Moments ‘The Fabelmans’ & ‘Aftersun’ Two films, two views of filmmak­ing—and of film’s relationship to memory. Not two philosophies or programs, but two views, arising...
Paid article‘C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction’
Situ, Xiao
XIAO SITU Lifelines ‘C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction’ A lifeline is a rope you toss into the water to save some­one struggling to stay afloat. Metaphorically, it describes a person or...
Paid articleHigher Ed Laid Low
Brown, Ryan M.
Higher Ed Laid Low RYAN M. BROWN In After the Ivory Tower Falls, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Philadel­phia Inquirer journalist Will Bunch seeks to tell the story of how college promised the...
Paid articleAlways Something New
Foley-Keene, Max
Always Something New MAX FOLEY-KEENE Turn on an NBA playoff game right before tip-off and you’ll see ten men who have no idea what’s about to happen. Their individual activities—their...
Paid articleTime After Time
Lucky, Katherine
Time After Time KATHERINE LUCKY How long does it take to read a book? It’s a question that can be answered by the clock or calendar, in hours, days, or weeks. But often, our...
Paid articleRecord of a Friendship
Nixon, Burke
Record of a Friendship BURKE NIXON Hua Hsu’s perceptive and unforgettable memoir, Stay True, focuses mostly on his college years—and one particularly meaningful and heart­breaking friendship...
Paid articlePreying on Desire
McManus, Matt
Preying on Desire MATT MCMANUS The $4.3 billion online-dating industry banks on an addictive combination of anxiety and hope, catering to our fear of being alone and to our very...
Paid articleDuke Ellington’s ‘The Majesty of God’
Futterman, Steve
STEVE FUTTERMAN Sacred Swing Duke Ellington’s ‘The Majesty of God’ Like that of many monumental artists throughout history, the legacy of Duke Ellington is one of contradiction. As...
Paid articleGwendolyn Brooks
Wiman, Christian
One Wants a Teller CHRISTIAN WIMAN I am beginning to despair And can see only two choices: Either go crazy or turn holy. —Adélia Prado, “Serenade” Sometimes the mystery of existence—that...
Paid article‘Lilacs’
Dybek, Stuart
LILACS Stuart Dybek This should be tapped in staccato like a telegram, on an obsolete Underwood condemned to a grated pawnshop window, for disseminating what was banned, striking a...
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