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December 2024: "Fix Your Gaze," Jonathan Malesic (click here for PDF)
November 2024: "Wives of the Saints," Alice McDermott (click here for PDF)
October 2024: "What's Wrong with Weird?," Charles McNamara (click here for PDF)
September 2024: "To Wander or to Stay Put?," Rabbi Philip Graubart (click here for PDF)
July/August 2024: "One Year to Mourn," Paul Lauritzen and Mathew A. Crawford (click here for PDF)
June 2024: "What Does Dignity Mean Now?," Daniel Walden, Gilbert Meilaender, Maura Tumulty, Cathleen Kaveny (click here for PDF)
May 2024: "Women and the Priesthood," Jane Varner Malhotra, Mary E. Hunt, Teresa Delgado, and Alice McDermott (click here for PDF)
April 2024: "What Comes Next," Anthony Annett (click here for PDF)
March 2024: "Another Kind of Vision," Marilynne Robinson (click here for PDF)
February 2024: "Meeting the Moment," Vincent Miller and Edward Tverdek, OFM (click here for PDF)
January 2024: "Putting Security First," James Chappel (click here for PDF)
December 2023: “Responding to the War in Gaza,” Andrew J. Bacevich, Santiago Ramos, Jordan Denari Duffner (click here for PDF)
November 2023: “Better Off Without Us?,” Gilbert Meilaender, John F. Haught, Nolen Gertz, and Frank Pasquale (click here for PDF)
October 2023: “Synodality & Catholic Amnesia,” Shaun Blanchard (click for PDF)
September 2023: “Dancing Around Death,” Xiao Situ (click for PDF)
July/August 2023: “Serious Play,” Matthew Rose (click for PDF)
June 2023: “Let Them Eat TVs,” Regina Munch (click for PDF)
May 2023: “Reckoning With Birth,” Jennifer Banks (click for PDF)
April 2023: “Coming Apart?,” James T. Kloppenberg (click for PDF)
March 2023: “Assisted Suicide & the Cure of Souls,” Cole Hartin (click for PDF)
February 2023: “The Limits of ‘Longtermism,’” Meghan Sullivan (click for PDF)
January 2023: “What Were We Thinking?,” George Scialabba (click for PDF)
December 2022: “Are We Protagonists Yet?,” Susan Bigelow Reynolds (click for PDF)
November 2022: “The Storm Cloud of the Twenty-First Century,” Eugene McCarraher (click for PDF)
October 2022: “Who Should We Trust? Who Can We Forgive?,” Bernard G. Prusak, Adam A. J. DeVille (click for PDF)
September 2022: Abortion after Dobbs (click for PDF)
July/August 2022: “American Idols,” David Albertson (click for PDF)
June 2022: “Human Fundamentals,” Zena Hitz (click for PDF)
May 2022: “A Whip of Cords,” Phil Klay (click for PDF)
April 2022: The War in Ukraine: John Connelly, James J. Sheehan, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Andrew Bacevich (click for PDF)
March 2022: “The Limits of Dialogue,” Austen Ivereigh; “Unity Without Reduction,” Gregory Hillis (click for PDF)
February 2022: “Images of the Invisible God,” Jeff Reimer (click for PDF)
January 2022: “The Fallen Idol,” Anthony Annett (click for PDF)
December 2021: “Struggling to Listen,” Mollie Wilson O’Reilly (click for PDF)
November 2021: The Varieties of Religious Community Today (click for PDF)
October 2021: “Sops to Humanity,” Phil Klay (click for PDF)
September 2021: “Separate Challenges,” Peter Steinfels (click for PDF)
July/August 2021: “There Ought to Be a Law,” Matthew Boudway (click for PDF)
June 2021: “From Here to Utopia,” David Albertson and Jason Blakely (click for PDF)
May 2021: “Gender, Sex, and Other Nonsense,” Daniel Walden; and replies from Paul J. Griffiths (“Gender & Identity,”) and Daniel Walden (“Understanding, Not Ultimatums”) (click for PDF)
April 2021: “A Providentialism Without God,” Eugene McCarraher (click for PDF)
March 2021: “When Texts Become Idols,” Sarah Ruden (click for PDF)
February 2021: “A Dangerous Confusion,” David Cloutier (click for PDF)
January 2021: “An Ambrose of Our Own,” Nicholas P. Cafardi (click for PDF)
December 2020: “Many and One,” Vinson Cunningham (click for PDF)
November 2020: “The New Integralists,” Timothy Troutner (click for PDF)
October 2020: “Baptizing White Supremacy,” Regina Munch (click for PDF)
September 2020: “Tell Them I’m a Christian,” Kenneth L. Woodward (click for PDF)