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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 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
Article The Catholic Imagination, Then & Now In the days of Fortress Catholicism, Catholic literary things were not as good as people may think; things are not as bad today as they fear By Paul Baumann May 20, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs
Feature Hallowing the Gaps God’s ineffability demands a creative use of language By Robert M. Pennoyer II June 14, 2017 Spirituality Secularism and Modernity
Article ‘This Economy Kills’ The economic ideology favored by people like Arthur Brooks is utterly incompatible with Catholic social teaching; it is a rock of shipwreck. By Anthony Annett June 5, 2017 Economy Ethics Social Justice Poverty Pope Francis
Feature All my life I have been haunted by Catholic teachings on just war. The War against Just War By Peter Steinfels June 5, 2017 War and Peace Ethics Social Justice
Feature Just War? Just-war teaching has distracted Catholics from learning and practicing strategic nonviolence. At times it has excused them from even trying By Gerald W. Schlabach May 31, 2017 U.S. Catholicism War and Peace Ethics Domestic Affairs Social Justice
Article Waving & Drowning ‘Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer’ shows how power is certainly seductive, but the seduction is not always sexual By Richard Alleva May 31, 2017 Movies
Article Letters | Basic income, human nature, etc. Readers respond to articles on a guaranteed universal income, human nature, contrasting cardinals, and transgender identity. By The Editors May 31, 2017 Letters
Article With Intent to Suppress Equal access to the voting booth is in jeopardy By The Editors May 30, 2017 Domestic Affairs Supreme Court Race Editorial Donald Trump
Poetry Four Devotional Poems If I can see everything and find no rest—what will you do for me then? By E. J. García May 30, 2017 Poetry Spirituality
Article Double Focus How modern poetry must face history—and what lies beyond history By Anthony Domestico May 30, 2017 Poetry Books
Article Without Walls John F. Kane’s book shows why Jesuit scholar William F. Lynch’s disappearance from the intellectual and cultural scene was as thorough as it was regrettable By Stephen Schloesser, SJ May 30, 2017 Books
Article I Don’t Feel Your Pain Paul Bloom’s book rejects the assumption that empathy is either a strong motivator of moral goodness or a proper guide to moral decision making By Stephen J. Pope May 30, 2017 Social Justice Books Ethics
Article Dorothy Day’s ‘Second Conversion’? Who was Fr. John J. Hugo and how might a study of Hugo shed light on the “public theology” that holds sway in American Catholic theology today? By Patrick Jordan May 30, 2017 Books U.S. Catholicism Social Justice
Article To the University, with Love Tolerance for intellectual pain is less than it was; so is tolerance for argument By Paul J. Griffiths May 18, 2017 Higher Education Domestic Affairs