April 2024

Article

A Divine Seed

Judith A. Merkle’s book asks: What is the role of religious life is in an increasingly secular, disaffiliated world?

By Jack Nuelle

April 19, 2024

Religious Life

Books

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Elegy for a Landline

Canceling my landline felt like sacrificing a connection to the past—for the sake of economy and “progress.”

By Sharon Mesmer

April 16, 2024

Culture

The Last Word

Article

Local Adaptations

In his deeply researched account of Japanese war-crimes trials, Gary Bass suggests that the liberal international order in Asia was stillborn.

By John T. McGreevy

April 15, 2024

Article

Who Should Study Philosophy?

In ‘Why Teach Philosophy in Schools?’ Jane Gatley seeks to “provide a failsafe argument for including philosophy on school curricula.”

By Ryan M. Brown

April 12, 2024

Article

Divorce, Annulment & the Petrine Privilege

“My divorce was final fifteen years ago. But the Catholic Church, to which I’m a recent convert, considers me still married.”

By Beverly Willett

April 10, 2024

Religion

U.S. Catholicism

Women in the Church

Article

All a Matter of Tense

Declan Ryan’s first full-length book of poetry is ambivalent about boxing and passionate about its honesty.

By Anthony Domestico

April 9, 2024

Poetry

Sports

Article

God or Trump?

It is a mistake to see Trump only as a political leader. In 2024, he is also a cult for Evangelicals who no longer want to be Christians.

By Thomas Geoghegan

April 8, 2024

Donald Trump

Religion

Politics

Feature

The Theology of Social Democracy

Neoliberalism is doomed. Could a new model of social democracy replace it?

By Anthony Annett

April 5, 2024

Article

Whither the University?

Former UC Berkeley chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks discusses the crisis in the humanities and the purpose of higher education in the 21st century.

By Dominic Preziosi

April 4, 2024

Higher Education

Politics

Culture

Article

A New Era in Poland?

Poland shows how Catholicism and liberal democracy are not at odds.

By Lauren Kane

April 2, 2024

Foreign Affairs

History

Europe

Feature

Christianity in the Middle East

Christians in the Middle East see themselves not just as abandoned, but as betrayed. How did we get here?

By Joseph Phillip Amar

April 1, 2024

Middle East

History

Muslim-Christian Relations

War and Peace

Article

There was another F. Mendelssohn; in fact, the first. Three years older, Fanny Mendelssohn was Felix’s beloved and “equally gifted sister.”

An Easter Revival

By Jennifer Vosters

March 29, 2024

Music

History

Women

Article

Hijacking St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Defenders and critics of a funeral disruption at St. Patrick’s Cathedral share a sense of entitled victimhood.

By Peter Steinfels

March 27, 2024

Article

Suicide as Protest

The contradiction inherent in Aaron Bushnell’s suicide muddled his message: he tried to defend the dignity of Palestinians while violating his own.

By Santiago Ramos

March 26, 2024

War and Peace

Article

Chaos in Haiti

The international community must now confront the problems they helped cause in Haiti.

By Regina Munch

March 25, 2024

Immigration

International

Article

A Show of Force on the Subway

The presence of National Guardsman on platforms will only heighten public concern about the risks of traveling on the subway.

By Miles Doyle

March 22, 2024

Politics

Poverty

Article

No More Military Aid to Israel

Nothing less than an end to U.S. military aid will get the attention of Netanyahu.

By The Editors

March 21, 2024

Article

What ‘Fiducia supplicans’ Has Changed

In terms of doctrine, ‘Fiducia supplicans’ is an awkward step forward and a sudden one.

By Xavier M. Montecel

March 14, 2024

LGBTQ issues

Bishops

Pope Francis

Article

Grace & Chaos

A new staging of ‘La forza del destino’ offers audiences the chance to ponder the paradoxes at the heart of what is often considered Verdi’s most “Catholic” opera.

By Harry Rose

March 7, 2024

Arts

Religion

Article

Poem | Requiem

“What melody will they expand in the hour after this, / then noon, then the evening’s sure diminishing?”

By Peter Cooley

March 27, 2024

Poetry

Article

Poem | Arrivals and Departures

“Arrivals and departures on the board, / Traveling days linked with lilacs / Whose redolence derails our sense of time.”

By Lee Oser

March 27, 2024

Poetry

Article

When I converted from atheism to Catholicism what drew me was simply the palpable presence of God in the parish and those parishioners who were lovingly serving others in the world.