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IssueVol. 150 Issue 008 (September 9 2023)
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Paid articleLetters
Addressing the priest shortage and countering consumerism A CONCRETE PATH FORWARD A thoughtful, well-timed article always smacks of a near miracle. And with grow­ing bewilderment in many...
Paid articleThe Trump indictments
FROM THE EDITORS The Cowardice Caucus In a live, nationally televised address forty-nine years ago last month, Richard Nixon resigned from the pres­idency, telling the American people that he...
Paid articleClimate victory in Montana
Simon, Isabella
A Patriarch Flees Baghdad In a move that has sent shockwaves throughout Christian communities in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, Cardi­nal Louis Sako, Patriarch of the Chal­dean Catholic Church,...
Paid articleThe coup in Niger
Munch, Regina
­­­ ­­­­ ­­­­­­­­ The Coup in Niger On July 26, a coup in Niger removed the country’s democrati­cally elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. The junta insisted it acted because of the...
Paid articleMass in Matamoros
Reynolds, Susan Bigelow
SHORT TAKES SUSAN BIGELOW REYNOLDS Water, Mud, Fire Bringing Mass to Matamoros In a migrant camp, liturgy is an act of bricolage. It’s Holy Thursday. I am in Brownsville, Texas, spending...
Paid articleLessons for the Ukraine War
Bacevich, Andrew J.
SHORT TAKES ANDREW J. BACEVICH Waist Deep in the Big Muddy What can the Vietnam War teach us about the war in Ukraine? I spent part of the long Independence Day weekend listening to an...
Paid articleThe writers' strike
Fortenberry, Dorothy
SHORT TAKES DOROTHY FORTENBERRY Sweat & Solidarity A dispatch from the writers’ strike A day on the picket line begins with considering the heat. It’s August. I live in the Valley. Even in...
Paid articleWorld Youth Day
Ivereigh, Austen
SHORT TAKES AUSTEN IVEREIGH Room for Everyone World Youth Day in Lisbon Ever since they began under St. John Paul II in the 1980s, World Youth Days (WYDs)—week-long festivals of faith held...
Paid articleLetter from Helsinki
Griffiths, Paul J.
PAUL J. GRIFFITHS On the Edge of Empires Letter from Helsinki arrive in Helsinki on June 18 for a six-week stay. I’m close to the end of a book I’ve been working on for more than a...
Paid articleHow the Right rationalizes inequality
McManus, Matt
ARTICLE Sacred & Natural Matt McManus How the Right rationalizes inequality In his famous book The Rhetoric of Reaction, the economist Albert Hirschman discusses three common rhetorical...
Paid articleThe real threat of AI
Gertz, Nolen
More than Machines Nolen Gertz Jacques Ellul on AI’s real threat to humanity The Writers Guild of America—the labor union of Hollywood’s screenwrit­ers—recently voted to strike in part...
Paid article'Disappointing Our Fathers'
Stein, Gary
POETRY DISAPPOINTING OUR FATHERS Gary Stein When I announced my leaving to study poetry you said, fine, but remember you can’t eat words. Maybe you expected me to live on your diet of...
Paid articleLevitating saints
Eire, Carlos
ARTICLE Wild Facts Carlos Eire How should historians deal with levitating saints? “While strolling in the garden one day…a priest said to him, ‘Father Joseph, oh, how beautiful God has made...
Paid articleCentrist illusions
Stern, Alexander
ARTICLE Centrist Illusions Alexander Stern How not to defend liberalism Liberal democracy, we are told, is under attack. On op-ed pages and cable news panels, at university conferences and...
Paid articleMigrants in the Mediterranean
Surinyach, Anna
PHOTO ESSAY The Drowned and the Saved ANNA SURINYACH Separating Europe from Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has long been an important migration route for refugees. But it is only since 2014 that...
Paid article'Oppenheimer'
Cooper, Rand Richards
FILM RAND RICHARDS COOPER History Channel Mode Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Is anyone else surprised by the popularity of Oppenheimer? The film has triggered a mammoth cultural...
Paid articleJake Heggie
Oleynick, Griffin
INTERVIEW ‘This Is Our Opera’ An interview with Jake Heggie Jake Heggie is the composer of ten operas, including works based on Moby-Dick and It’s a Wonderful Life. His first opera, Dead...
Paid article'Death Is Not the End'
Situ, Xiao
ART XIAO SITU Dancing Around Death ‘Death Is Not the End’ Growing up, I learned to approach death and the afterlife not with dread but with a sense of excitement. Every April, my extended...
Paid articleHow We Misremember MLK
Lloyd, Vincent
BOOKS How We Misremember MLK VINCENT LLOYD “As it is with candles, so it was with him: the more light he gave, the less there was of him.” This is how the novelist Charles Johnson imagines...
Paid articleHelen Keller, Christian Socialist
Tabor, Nick
BOOKS Helen Keller, Christian Socialist NICK TABOR It was late 1952, and the World Council of Peace was organizing a conference in Vienna. Diplomats and left­ist scholars planned to converge...
Paid articleWisdom for Any Season
Johnson, Luke Timothy
BOOKS Wisdom for Any Season LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON The risen Christ shows himself in the wounds of the world. This is the apparent paradox—actually, the heart of the good news—that organizes...
Paid articleDo Catholic Colleges Have a Future?
Dallavalle, Nancy
BOOKS Do Catholic Colleges Have a Future? NANCY DALLAVALLE Like every other sector of the econ­omy, Catholic higher education is subject to the larger forces of finance, government...
Paid articleSelf-Consciously Secular
Palmer, Daniele
BOOKS Self-Consciously Secular DANIELE PALMER To describe Opus Dei as mundane would likely strike most readers as odd, if not perverse. After all, the group has been embroiled in controversy...
Paid articleThe Problem of Darci
Antepara, Robin
BOOKS Monica Potts The Problem of Darci ROBIN ANTEPARA It all began with a statistic: white, working-class women in rural America were dying younger, and at a faster clip, than they...
Paid article'The Speck in Her Eye'
Williams, Leslie
POETRY THE SPECK IN HER EYE Leslie Williams I had never met a mind so perfectly intoxicant, so redolent, so like a grove of orange trees. Blossoms dazzling, but shaken easily, maybe...
Paid articleThe voice of the laity
August, Kayla
LAST WORD Developing the Voice of the Laity KAYLA AUGUST The synodal listening sessions opened the door to hear­ing the voice of the laity in a new way, as parishes across the world were...
Paid article'Kyiv'
Altmann, Howard
POETRY KYIV Howard Altmann I don’t believe in poetry the poet said to the plant trying to be a tree in the rubble of the city. I believe in your assembly the poet said to the sticks...
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