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IssueVol. 152 Issue 009 (October 1 2025)
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Paid articleLetters
A Catholic response to Gaza, American interventionism PROFIT, NOT PRINCIPLES In “The Frailties of Reason” (July/August), Paul J. Griffiths alludes to “our American record of slaughtering...
Paid articleThe Supreme Court
FROM THE EDITORS Robed Collaborators In the early days of his second term, some worried that Donald Trump would cause a constitutional crisis by defy­ing the Supreme Court after it blocked one...
Paid articleViolent political rhetoric
Preziosi, Dominic
American Babel Political violence and the rhetoric around it reveal both the limits of language and the dangers of its misuse. It becomes more dif­ficult to understand our fellow citi­zens when our...
Paid articleThe Epstein files
Doyle, Miles
In Plain Sight President Donald Trump owes a great deal of his political fortune to his enthusiasm for conspiracies. Before running for president, Trump embraced the nascent “birther” move­ment,...
Paid articleThe Strait of Messina
Spadaro, Antonio
ANTONIO SPADARO Between Scylla & Charybdis—Literally The Strait of Messina is much more than an engineering problem. In recent days, The Washington Post and the Financial Times have turned...
Paid articleGodwinks
Tverdek, Edward
EDWARD TVERDEK The Meaning of Coincidence Finding God in everyday life is not a science. Many religious people—cer­tainly Christians—will attest that one of the immediate rewards of faith...
Paid articleWhy Democrats lose
Simon, Kenneth L. Woodward, Isabella
KENNETH L. WOODWARD Magnificent Obsessions How the Democrats have alienated a growing number working-class voters The shock-and-awe tactics of President Donald Trump’s frenetic first months...
Paid articleEating the body of Christ
Wayland-Smith, Ellen
Corpus Christi Ellen Wayland-Smith Communion as a metabolic mystery I took my first Catholic Communion in 1973, when I was seven years old. I didn’t wear the white lace wedding-cake...
Paid articleRosa Luxemburg
Foley-Keene, Max
All Creatures Great and Small Max Foley-Keene Rosa Luxemburg’s prison letters model solidarity with everyone and everything that lives. The Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg did not get...
Paid article'The Peddler'
Altmann, Howard
THE PEDDLER Howard Altmann What shadow follows me across the ocean, ebbing and flowing beneath the gentle waves of this old branch, her insistent tangled roots dislodging slabs of...
Paid articleA pilgrimage to Popocatepetl
Sorrentino, Joseph
Pilgrimage to Popocatépetl How the slope of a volcano in central Mexico became sacred ground JOSEPH SORRENTINO On a cold, dark morning in the middle of March, at about 3 a.m., around a...
Paid articleCaring for mentally ill people
Kaveny, Peter K. Fay, Tobias Winright, Meg
The Least of These A symposium on serving people with mental illness Peter K. Fay Tobias Winright Meg Kaveny If baptism is a sign of inclusion within the body of Christ, we could say, as...
Paid articleOur national Covid response
Blakely, Jason
What the Experts Got Wrong Jason Blakely Are we humble and honest enough to draw the right lessons from the pandemic? Like many people, I started the pandemic zealously following (and...
Paid articleThree poems by David Lehman
Three poems by David Lehman SOLO PIANO On Art Tatum’s birthday, October 13, let’s play his “Tea for Two,” as happy a view of marital bliss as any duet conducted by two hands playing as...
Paid articleItaly Reborn
Gilbert, Mark
The De Gasperi Method JOHN T. MCGREEVY An Italian politician might soon become a saint. The jokes write themselves. A politician? From Italy? But it’s true. The Archdiocese of...
Paid articleJoseph Smith
Turner, John G.
Leveraging Belief GERARDO MARTÍ In the canon of American innovation, Joseph Smith stands alongside Edison, Bell, and the Wright brothers—not for technology, but for theology....
Paid article'The Circus Train'
Powell, Jim
­­­­­ ­­­­­­ ­ THE CIRCUS TRAIN Jim Powell The wind shifts. A cold front is moving in. Gusts tumble down and racket in the trees. The circus train is leaving town. It trundles...
Paid articleSorrowful Mysteries
Harrigan, Stephen
Faith, Fate & Fátima PATRICIA HAMPL The startling subtitle of Stephen Harrigan’s book makes a big claim: that the apparitions of the Virgin to three Portuguese children in 1917 were...
Paid articleBroken Altars
Howard, Thomas Albert
The French Connection JAMES BERNARD MURPHY Christianity began as a religion of martyrs—that is, victims of state violence. But once Chris­tians gained political power, they went from...
Paid articleTheology of Horror
Duns, Ryan G.
More than Gore STEVEN KNEPPER Horror movies are easy to dis­miss as only sudden jolts and gratuitous gore, a genre that circumvents our minds to get at our viscera. There’s some truth to...
Paid articleWordsworth in the Lake District
Schwendener, Peter
PETER SCHWENDENER Walking with Wordsworth In the Lake District, one name is everywhere. On the northbound train from London, I noticed a familiar pattern. I was with my wife and...
Paid articleCatholic mothers
Brunkhorst, Christine
Gently They Go CHRISTINE BRUNKHORST In the final weeks of my mother’s life, I took long walks along the creek near my house while talking on the phone with a childhood friend whose own...
Paid article'Time Machine'
Raatikainen, Lisa
POETRY TIME MACHINE Lisa Raatikainen How I love to learn of old things being newly discovered— old things, which if they weren’t real I might have imagined: a case of sparkling wine,...
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