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Feature What We Can & Cannot Fix Watching ‘The Mission’ thirty years on: Is there something new to learn? By Jeff Guhin May 11, 2017 Movies Latin America Social Justice
Article Behold, the Jihad of Freedom ‘America’s Dream Palace’ describes the collaboration between U.S. policymakers largely ignorant of the Middle East and the entities to which they turned for advice By Andrew J. Bacevich May 10, 2017 Books Middle East
Article Is the Pope ‘Anti-Jewish’? No, but here’s why his critics think so By Philip A. Cunningham May 8, 2017 Pope Francis Jewish-Christian Relations Theology Ecumenism
Article The King of Debt A tax plan that saves the Trumps a lot money, and that costs the federal government far more By The Editors May 8, 2017 Donald Trump Economy Domestic Affairs Social Justice Editorial
Article La Nostalgie et l’Oubli What Le Pen’s supporters would prefer to forget By Margaret O'Brien Steinfels May 10, 2017 Columnists Foreign Affairs
Poetry Poems | Hiking All Night, An Ode Timothy Murphy’s latest collection is Devotions By Timothy Murphy May 8, 2017 Poetry
Poetry Poem | Twice Last Night I Saw Eternity “The first time I experienced it in Braille / though I’m 20-20 with glasses and the shell” By Peter Cooley May 8, 2017 Poetry
Poetry Poem | Pietà in the Living Room “Mothers possess no gland, no loom of muscle that makes oxygen / So you covered my face with a clear-plastic breast” By Kyle J. Bassett May 8, 2017 Poetry
Article Letters: Growing Up Trans, Victims of Sin, Dante Readers respond to articles on transgender issues in the church, the nature of sin, and what Dante thought about salvation. By The Editors May 8, 2017 Letters
Article The Door of No Return Faithful Christians were responsible for Elmina, for St. George’s Castle. They worshipped God in the midst of utter depravity. By Richard Brown May 8, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs Race The Last Word
Article Women & Children Last Why Republicans are wrong to treat prenatal care as a luxury By Agnes R. Howard May 8, 2017 Health Care Domestic Affairs Donald Trump
Article ‘Beauty and the Beast’ & ‘Colossal' This is a typical rom-com set-up. But, hey, what about that monster? By Richard Alleva May 8, 2017 Movies
Article The Catholic Vision Hiring for mission is about more than ‘counting Catholics’ By Joshua Hochschild May 8, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Higher Education Social Justice Theology
Article The Unnamed Behemoth “The evolving edifice of public intellectualism,” according to Michael C. Desch, rests on a foundation whose cement seems to be returning to sand By Eric Miller May 8, 2017 Books Middle East Barack Obama Donald Trump Economy
Article Republican Heaven Taxes, inequality, and the rise of the 0.01 percent By Charles R. Morris May 8, 2017 Economy Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Poverty Columnists
Article One Thousand and One Appropriations Paulo Lemos Horta makes clear in 'Marvellous Thieves' that the European translators of Arabian Nights felt free to appropriate like crazy By Celia Wren May 8, 2017 Books
Article More than Animals Roger Scruton maintains that animality is but one aspect of our human nature By Gary Gutting May 8, 2017 Books Secularism and Modernity Theology
Article Free-Market Folly Donald Trump’s economic program may fit comfortably with free-market ideas, but it conflicts with Catholic social thought By Charles Wilber May 8, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Social Justice Economy Bishops
Article The Trump Touch Is America safer when agents spend hours interrogating an American citizen with no criminal record or terrorist associations? By Lubana Adi April 17, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Immigration Muslim-Christian Relations
