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Article Issues of Blood There is some one pain in the world to which every one of us is called to witness and perhaps ease By Christian Wiman March 14, 2018 Spirituality The Last Word
Article Succor Punch Forget the tax code. How should Christians think about charitable giving? By Cathleen Kaveny March 13, 2018 Domestic Affairs U.S. Catholicism Economy Columnists Ethics
Article No Compromises In his translation of the New Testament, David Bentley Hart delights in challenging convention and proposing novel terms By Luke Timothy Johnson March 7, 2018 Books Theology
Article ‘We Were Different’ The long and cyclical legacy of nativism within the American Catholic laity By Julia G. Young March 5, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Immigration Race
Feature Taking the Measure of #MeToo Two views on finding justice amid moral outrage By Gary Gutting, Sarah Ruden March 2, 2018 Ethics Gender Domestic Affairs
Article A Life, Not a Grammar What would the ideal introduction to Catholicism look like? By Paul J. Griffiths March 1, 2018 Theology Book Essay U.S. Catholicism
Article The Outrage Still Sounds Roddy Doyle’s latest novel, Smile, deftly channels Irish outrage at the sexual abuse crisis and its cover-up By Valerie Sayers February 28, 2018 Books Sexual-abuse Crisis
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 Servants of the NRA Why do so many politicians refuse to talk about gun control? By E. J. Dionne Jr. February 26, 2018 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Columnists
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 Poem | Return to Rosebud “On the south-facing slopes / so infernally dry / the yuccas spear the sky, / and all the righteous hopes / of ranchers are in vain / for a grass-growing rain” By Timothy Murphy February 26, 2018 Poetry
Article Letters | Temptation, peril, etc. Readers respond to articles about possible changes to the translation of the Our Father By The Editors February 23, 2018 Letters
Article Poem | Darkness “There are journeys without ways at all: / You pass through wastes of withered heath, / Through arguments / Like a comb’s teeth” By Kevin Hart February 23, 2018 Poetry
Article Crisis Averted? In ‘Midlife: A Philosophical Guide,’ Kieran Setiya urges us to take the midlife crisis seriously as a special kind of crisis of value By Meghan Sullivan February 22, 2018 Books Secularism and Modernity