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IssueVol. 151 Issue 007 (July 1 2024)
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Paid articleLetters
Women priests and Thomas Merton A PASTORAL PERSPECTIVE As a woman who has no more desire to be a priest than I do to be a brain surgeon, let me raise the pastoral per­spective (“Women and the...
Paid articleInflation politics
FROM THE EDITORS The Politics of Prices The tractors arrived in Washington in February of 1979. Comprising three thousand farmers from around the country, the “Tractorcade” eventu­ally...
Paid articleBorder-policy changes
Munch, Regina
Toxic Tech In mid-June, one year after releasing a report about the threats posed by social-media platforms to young people’s mental health, U.S. surgeon general Dr. Vivek Murthy issued another...
Paid articleNuclear weapons
Doyle, Miles
­­­ ­­­­ ­­­­ A New Arms Race Among the many issues that don’t get the attention they deserve on newspaper front pages and in presidential debates, one in particular stands out as both...
Paid articleSustaining vocations
Reynolds, Susan Bigelow
SHORT TAKES SUSAN BIGELOW REYNOLDS Sustaining Vocations Academic societies are more important now than ever. Last month, at the annual meeting of the Catholic Theological Soci­ety of America...
Paid articleTrump’s conviction
Moses, Paul
SHORT TAKES PAUL MOSES Glitz & Graft Trump’s conviction and the revenge of 1980s New York Donald J. Trump, a man adept at manipulating both the media and the political process in his...
Paid articleLetter from India
McGowan, Jo
SHORT TAKES JO MCGOWAN Almost A politically wounded Narendra Modi maintains his grip on power. India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been in power since 2014, increasing its hold on the...
Paid articleAn Orthodox deaconess ordained
Frost, Carrie Frederick
SHORT TAKES CARRIE FREDERICK FROST Who’s Next? The Orthodox Church ordains a deaconess. “Who do you think will go first: the Catholics or the Orthodox?” a col­league asked me a few years ago...
Paid articleAmerica’s loneliness crisis
Corbin, Ian Marcus
SHORT TAKES IAN MARCUS CORBIN Without Task or Purpose The real cause of America’s loneliness crisis  American loneliness has, not for the first time, given birth to a bustling new industry....
Paid articleEvangelicalism and revolution
Fea, John
ARTICLE Revival and Revolution John Fea The disputed thesis that underpins MAGA evangelicalism On April 5, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump announced via Twitter...
Paid articleUkrainian Olympians
n, Susana Giró
PHOTO ESSAY Already Victorious Ukrainian Olympians have endured two years of wartime hardships to prepare for the Paris games. SUSANA GIRÓN The 2024 Paris Olympics, beginning July 26, are...
Paid articleMedicalizing prolonged grief
Lauritzen, Paul; Crawford, Mathew A.
Charles Cottet, Mourning in Ouessant, 1903 One Year to Mourn Paul Lauritzen and Mathew A. Crawford Should grief be considered a medical disorder? In March 2022, the American Psychiatric...
Paid article‘Weak Elegy’
Barkin, Don
POETRY WEAK ELEGY Don Barkin What went on in that head? Sometimes a breeze blew lifting a little glitter as snow resettles a ledge. He certainly wasn’t that girl sweeping past in an...
Paid articleAmerican Christian socialism
Carter, Heath W.
ARTICLE Did ‘Churchianity’ Sink American Socialism? Heath W. Carter Janine Giordano Drake’s ‘The Gospel of Church’ It’s no exaggeration to say that Americans’ faith in institu­tions is at a...
Paid articleJust Passing Through
Brien, Kaylie Borden O’
Just Passing Through Kaylie Borden O’Brien A young couple beset by “an anxious ambivalence” about their future. The faux New England Connected Cape where they are temporarily housed. A dying...
Paid articleA theological case for God-She
Johnson, Elizabeth A.
FROM THE ARCHIVES Shortly before the start of the Second Vatican Council, former Commonweal editor John Cog­ley filed a column from Rome outlining what two recent dinner companions, both...
Paid article‘Ancient Firefly’
Fowlkes, Vernon Jr.
POETRY ANCIENT FIREFLY Vernon Fowlkes Jr. Branches heavy with the night’s perfume the moon holds back the song in her soft, bright throat, the silence of a thousand moons trapped in a...
Paid articleAnastasia Berg & Rachel Wiseman
Preziosi, Dominic
INTERVIEW To Have or Have Not An interview with Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman are the authors of What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice (St....
Paid article‘Käthe Kollwitz’
Rubsam, Robert
ARTS ROBERT RUBSAM All Darkness ‘Käthe Kollwitz’ at the Museum of Modern Art Her earliest works are all self-por­traits: the young woman with her round face and unruly hair and brows so heavy...
Paid article‘Oppression’
Skillman, Judith
POETRY OPPRESSION Judith Skillman Not the worst part, nightmares. Not this heat dome nor the same dun yard sewn to earth outside the glass slider with its pinch-pleated burgundy...
Paid articleEveryone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer
Oliva, Reviewed by Alejandra
Migration’s Doom Loop ALEJANDRA OLIVA When I first started inter­preting for asylum seek­ers who had landed in New York City in the win­ter of 2017, I stepped into the...
Paid articleReading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Shy, Reviewed by Todd
BOOKS God’s Tact TODD SHY The existence of the world is a marvel to Marilynne Robinson. Our ability to apprehend even shards of that marvel fills her with gratitude and wonder—and faith....
Paid articleThe Novelist by Jordan Castro
Ramos, Reviewed by Santiago
BOOKS Getting the Question Right SANTIAGO RAMOS The Novelist covers six hours in the life of a young man, a struggling novelist. It’s a work­ing morning: our protagonist gets up, makes tea...
Paid articleJames by Percival Everett
Petty, Reviewed by Adam Fleming
BOOKS Laughter and Silence ADAM FLEMING PETTY A writer’s writer! Perhaps the cruelest fate that can befall a writer. To be a writer’s writer is to be a good writer—so good, in fact, that the...
Paid articleZero at the Bone by Christian Wiman
Lakeland, Reviewed by Paul
BOOKS The Lack Is Sacred PAUL LAKELAND   Zero at the Bone is hard to categorize. It’s part autobi­ographical sketch, part philosophical and theolog­ical reflection, and, of course, part...
Paid articleVenetian Mirrors by Jakob Ziguras
Siadhail, Micheal O’
BOOKS John Singer Sargent, The Rialto, Venice, 1911 Time’s Shambles MICHEAL O’SIADHAIL This impressive volume is Jakob Ziguras’s third poetry collection. Ziguras, who was born in Poland,...
Paid article‘Poem for a Summer Morning’
Skoyles, John
POETRY POEM FOR A SUMMER MORNING John Skoyles The spider plant and Christmas cactus don’t quite rejoice yet there’s an awakening at the windows and walls from the rustle of the garbage...
Paid article‘The Incredulity of Saint Thomas’
Aghajanian, Arthur
LAST WORD Step into the Light ARTHUR AGHAJANIAN When I was growing up, I thought of faith and belief as synonymous. I never had the difference explained to me by a respected authority,...
Paid article‘Morning’s Dove’
Schiffman, Richard
POETRY MORNING’S DOVE Richard Schiffman We call it a mourning dove, a misnomer, as if its placid call were plaintive, as if it shared our plumbless ache of loss. But hereabouts it’s simply...
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