Feature Self-Sacrifice & Secularism How a Catholic police officer became a Christian hero and a symbol of national unity in a very secular state By Christopher Schaefer April 27, 2018 Foreign Affairs Secularism and Modernity
Article The Mediterranean Frontier Amid Italy’s prolonged political upheaval, traditional cultural gatekeepers—the Catholic Church included—have lost their influence By Massimo Faggioli April 19, 2018 Foreign Affairs Pope Francis
Article Sleepwalking into Disaster We pay too little attention to the causes, consequences, and persistence of war By Margaret O’Brien Steinfels April 6, 2018 War and Peace Foreign Affairs
Article Goodness & Greatness What does a shrine to national greatness mean when a nation has given up on pursuing goodness? By Patrick Whelan March 29, 2018 Domestic Affairs Foreign Affairs Donald Trump
Article When the Faithful Vote from Fear Catholic Church leaders are facing up to the fact that the faithful have helped elect a coalition united by opposition to immigrants By Paul Moses March 26, 2018 Immigration Race Foreign Affairs Pope Francis
Article St. Patrick vs. Steven Bannon in Rome As Italy sorts out whether it will build a government based on antipathy for immigrants, St. Patrick (a Roman citizen) offers a timely message By Paul Moses March 17, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Foreign Affairs Immigration
Article Protest & Protection What closing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was meant to accomplish By Santiago Ramos March 14, 2018 Ecumenism Jewish-Christian Relations Foreign Affairs
Article Populism Isn’t the Villain Blaming populism for the crisis in liberal democracy risks mistaking the symptom for the cause By E. J. Dionne Jr. March 8, 2018 Domestic Affairs Foreign Affairs Donald Trump
Feature After Genocide Is it possible to make sense, theologically, of interreligious strife in the Balkans? By Thomas Albert Howard February 26, 2018 Foreign Affairs Ecumenism
Article Serpents & Doves Resolving the conflict between China’s two Catholic communities will require very careful compromises By The Editors February 21, 2018 Editorial Pope Francis Foreign Affairs Bishops
Article Just a Dupe Even in the light most favorable to him, President Trump was the Russians’ dupe By Paul Moses February 20, 2018 Donald Trump Election 2016 Foreign Affairs
Article Fake News, Murder & the Philippine Bishops The bishops saw how manipulation of social media helps to build public support for the summary slaying of drug dealers By Paul Moses February 13, 2018 Foreign Affairs Bishops Pope Francis Media
Article The Quiet Revolution Western liberals continue to claim Emmanuel Macron as their champion. They shouldn't By Cole Stangler February 13, 2018 Foreign Affairs Immigration
Article Sound Familiar? The anti-immigrant animus here and in Europe reflects the spread of the same virus By Rand Richards Cooper February 12, 2018 Immigration Race Donald Trump Foreign Affairs Domestic Affairs
Feature No More Nukes? Are we at last on the eve of the postnuclear millennium? By Michael C. Desch, Gerard F. Powers February 9, 2018 War and Peace Domestic Affairs Foreign Affairs Pope Francis
Article Will the Nunes Memo Sway Public Opinion? The memo that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released last week reads like a motion to suppress evidence in an upcoming trial By Paul Moses February 5, 2018 Donald Trump Media Foreign Affairs
Article Mission Creep David Hollinger urges his readers to see past the cliché of Protestant missionaries unthinkingly imposing Western mores on recalcitrant natives By John T. McGreevy January 29, 2018 Books Foreign Affairs U.S. Catholicism Race
Article Life in a Shithole Country Reflections from a beautiful, so-called "shithole country," where they know a shithole style of leadership when they smell one By Rand Richards Cooper January 27, 2018 Donald Trump Race Foreign Affairs Domestic Affairs
Article Surviving the Last Century ‘What You Did Not Tell’ is a window into the hopes and fears of those who suffered some of the worst calamities of the twentieth century By Regina Munch January 10, 2018 Books War and Peace Foreign Affairs
Article Love & the Law We mustn’t forget C.G. Weeramantry’s Catholic (and catholic) view of justice in international law By William George January 5, 2018 Ethics Foreign Affairs
Article Nuclear War and Christian Responsibility From our pages in 1962, Thomas Merton writes on the duty of Christians in apocalyptic times By Thomas Merton January 3, 2018 Foreign Affairs Ethics War and Peace
Article ‘What If You Woke Up One Day and All the Arabs Were Gone?’ All good learning is a discovery By William Collins Donahue December 20, 2017 Middle East Jewish-Christian Relations Foreign Affairs
Article A Report with Ramifications Recommendations from the final report of the Australian Royal Commission inquiry into sexual abuse cover celibacy and priestly formation By Massimo Faggioli December 20, 2017 Sexual-abuse Crisis Foreign Affairs Pope Francis Vatican II
Article Nothing Was Inevitable We need to rescue Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin from the clichés that have obscured them By John Lukacs December 18, 2017 War and Peace Foreign Affairs
Article Salt in the Wound Trump’s pointless “recognition of reality” on Jerusalem does nothing to advance the cause of peace or security in the Middle East By The Editors December 12, 2017 Donald Trump Editorial Middle East Foreign Affairs
Feature The Asylum to Our South People fleeing to Mexico from extreme violence in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador face major obstacles By Joseph Sorrentino December 4, 2017 Latin America Foreign Affairs
Article Mass Murder & the Philippine Church Rodrigo Duterte criticizes the Catholic Church to discredit any institution that may challenge his murderous regime. By Paul Moses November 15, 2017 Foreign Affairs Bishops Donald Trump
Article Hardly a Triumph We really need to update how we imagine the Cold War period By Andrew J. Bacevich November 9, 2017 Foreign Affairs War and Peace
Article Share This Protest While the horizontal nature of social media can be a solution to the problem of state- or elite-controlled media, it presents problems of its own By Regina Munch November 6, 2017 Books Foreign Affairs
Article The Dirt in the FBI’s Unsealed Documents There’s a link between the Trump campaign and people associated with the Russian government By Paul Moses October 30, 2017 Donald Trump Foreign Affairs
Article When Was It Better? Overheated predictions of Europe’s demise undermine the confidence that democracies need By James J. Sheehan October 30, 2017 Foreign Affairs Race
Article Caught between Camps Where the Christians of Jerusalem’s Old City find themselves in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict By Santiago Ramos October 16, 2017 Foreign Affairs War and Peace Ecumenism
Article Still Hurting Ken Burns’s ‘The Vietnam War’ lays bare a record of badly misguided government and military decisions, but it offers no indictment By Rand Richards Cooper October 12, 2017 War and Peace Foreign Affairs Media
Article Taunting a Tyrant Trump’s childish insults are dangerous with an adversary like Kim Jong-un, who is as thin-skinned, bombastic, and impetuous as our president By The Editors October 3, 2017 Donald Trump Foreign Affairs Editorial War and Peace
Article But Consider the Alternative Does the showing of the far-right Alternativ für Deutschland party in the German election give us reason to worry? By William Collins Donahue September 26, 2017 Foreign Affairs Web Exclusive
Feature Too Much Forgetting The failure to thematize Polish anti-Semitism seems an odd and troubling lacuna at Auschwitz By William Collins Donahue September 20, 2017 War and Peace Foreign Affairs
Article Unpaid Bills What happens when a nation’s public-health system is deliberately dismantled By Jo McGowan September 7, 2017 Health Care Foreign Affairs Poverty Columnists
Article Between Two Empires What does Bernard Lewis make of his own legacy? By Margaret O'Brien Steinfels August 31, 2017 War and Peace Foreign Affairs
Article What Bannon’s Departure Says about Trump’s Ideas Trump’s populism has always been a ruse By E. J. Dionne Jr. August 19, 2017 Donald Trump Race Foreign Affairs Economy War and Peace
Article Letter from Canada It is a dry time for Canadian Catholic thinkers By Michael W. Higgins August 16, 2017 Foreign Affairs Secularism and Modernity Bishops
Article The Worst of Options Donald Trump’s appalling approach to North Korea is just what we don’t need By E. J. Dionne Jr. August 10, 2017 Columnists Donald Trump Foreign Affairs War and Peace
Article Slaves Are Catching Our Shrimp The Rohingyas are caught between the alternatives of enslavement, annihilation, and impossible-looking escape over the water. Will we take any action? By Sarah Ruden July 27, 2017 Foreign Affairs
Article Letter from Germany Americans may want to turn to Germany for a lesson on democratic institutions By William Collins Donahue July 20, 2017 Foreign Affairs
Article Lost Amid Anxiety While most public considerations of terrorism are colored by nefarious political ambitions, this is a vital work on jihadism in the West By Cole Stangler July 13, 2017 Terrorism Middle East Muslim-Christian Relations Foreign Affairs
Article What the European Academy of Religion Says about Religion ... and what it might also say about the future of Europe By Massimo Faggioli June 28, 2017 Theology Foreign Affairs Pope Francis Pope John Paul II Pope Benedict XVI
Article Extremists, ‘X-Men,’ and an Ex-Governor Jakarta’s stormy 2017 competition for governor has been a political season like no other By David Pinault June 21, 2017 Muslim-Christian Relations Foreign Affairs
Article Cardinal Virtues Let’s retire talk about “peripheries”; what’s most interesting about the newest cardinal-designates is their character By Rita Ferrone June 13, 2017 Pope Francis Foreign Affairs Social Justice Priesthood
Article Letter from Germany Germans across the political spectrum now believe that the United States is much less likely to stand with them in a time of crisis By William Collins Donahue June 9, 2017 Donald Trump Environment Foreign Affairs Climate Change
Article Climate of Folly Why are Catholic politicians backing Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord? By Anthony Annett June 2, 2017 Environment Donald Trump Foreign Affairs Pope Francis Web Exclusive Climate Change
Article Letter from Great Britain The world watches Washington, even as Britain faces the burden of reordering its own world in the ongoing wake of 2016 By Margaret Lough May 31, 2017 Foreign Affairs
