Article Language Games Clearer, more honest language is needed if the two sides in the seemingly unresolvable debate around abortion are going to get beyond name-calling By Paul Baumann January 22, 2019 Abortion Bioethics U.S. Catholicism
Article St. Bernadette’s Blockhouse As one of France’s foremost public intellectuals, Paul Virilio explored themes like rapid modernization, technology, and the eclipse of privacy By Dean Dettloff January 20, 2019 Spirituality Saints Arts War and Peace The Last Word
Article Blessed, But Also Ordained A commission on women in the diaconate commissioned by Pope Francis concluded its work in June; two of its members spoke at Fordham University By Paul Moses January 18, 2019 Women in the Church Theology Pope Benedict XVI Pope Francis
Article Why We Came We asked you to tell us your stories of why you came, left, or stayed in the church. In this final installment, two readers share their conversion to Catholicism By The Editors January 17, 2019 Spirituality Religious Life U.S. Catholicism
Article Living into ‘Laudato si’’ Catholics in the Philippines, more than anywhere else, have brought Pope Francis’s ecological vision to life and made it their own By Rita Ferrone January 15, 2019 Environment Pope Francis U.S. Catholicism Bishops
Article A Gift, Not a Guilt Trip What if, instead of thinking about Christ’s baptism in terms of original sin, we followed St. Cyril’s lead in celebrating the breath of the Spirit? By Gregory Hillis January 12, 2019 Spirituality Theology