Feature The Feminist Wife The ambitious woman, the wife, the mother: we are each more complex than the roles we play By Kate Lucky February 15, 2018 Women in the Church Sexuality
Article Lenten Hours As Lent invites us to slow down, rich medieval art helps us see God’s presence in time By Griffin Oleynick February 14, 2018 Arts Spirituality
Article Fake News, Murder & the Philippine Bishops The bishops saw how manipulation of social media helps to build public support for the summary slaying of drug dealers By Paul Moses February 13, 2018 Foreign Affairs Bishops Pope Francis Media
Article Democracy Is the Problem? Understanding the return of Catholic anti-liberalism By Massimo Faggioli February 12, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Vatican II Pope John Paul II Contraception mandate
Feature No More Nukes? Are we at last on the eve of the postnuclear millennium? By Michael C. Desch, Gerard F. Powers February 9, 2018 War and Peace Domestic Affairs Foreign Affairs Pope Francis
Article A Communion of Sinners & Saints Before becoming a communion of saints we are first of all a communion of sinners By Jerry Ryan February 8, 2018 Spirituality
Article A Time to Judge Francis has demanded accountability from priests and bishops, and now he must be held to account for how he has handled the sexual-abuse crisis By The Editors February 6, 2018 Pope Francis Bishops Sexual-abuse Crisis
Feature When Are a Candidate’s Religious Beliefs Relevant? Ask the politicians: How will religious values inform your political decisions? By Eric Luckey February 6, 2018 Domestic Affairs U.S. Catholicism Secularism and Modernity
Article English Is Not Latin From Evagrius of Antioch to George Steiner, there is unanimity that a genuine translation must communicate well. What will the U. S. bishops recommend today? By Gerald O'Collins, SJ, John Wilkins February 5, 2018 Pope Francis Liturgy Bishops U.S. Catholicism
Article The Comedy in Ash & Roses Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day coincide this year like a bad joke, but there is truth in it By B. D. McClay February 5, 2018 Liturgy Spirituality
Article A Burial at Gethsemani Contemplating our mortality can draw us deeper into our communities By Gregory Hillis February 3, 2018 Death and Dying Spirituality U.S. Catholicism The Last Word Religious Life
Article What Did I Just Pray? Why we still need to talk about liturgical translation By Rita Ferrone January 30, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Bishops Liturgy Columnists
Article Fake News & the Gospel Truth Rather than blame “fake news” on professional journalists, Pope Francis enlists them as “the protectors of news.” What is a journalist’s role? By Paul Moses January 25, 2018 Media Pope Francis Donald Trump
Article We Cannot Accept This Pope Pius IX’s actions after the abduction of Edgardo Mortara were not motivated by piety, but traditional Catholic supersessionism By Kevin J. Madigan January 25, 2018 Ecumenism U.S. Catholicism Media Jewish-Christian Relations
Article Obsessed with Continuity What an essay on the Mortara kidnapping confirms By Massimo Faggioli January 20, 2018 Jewish-Christian Relations Vatican II Pope Francis U.S. Catholicism Theology
Feature Imagine There’s No Clergy What to do about the priesthood? By William M. Shea and David Cloutier January 20, 2018 Sexual-abuse Crisis Bishops U.S. Catholicism Priesthood
Article The ‘Seamless Garment’ Makes a Comeback Ditching the consistent ethic of life model was a mistake, both tactically and morally By John Gehring January 19, 2018 Abortion Bishops Domestic Affairs
Article Don’t Over-Spiritualize ‘Temptation’ When we pray to be spared temptation, we’re asking for something very practical By Nicholas Frankovich January 17, 2018 Pope Francis Spirituality Theology Liturgy
Article ‘Be Such as God Made You’ Rethinking the spirituality of body image with some help from the ancient church By Amanda C. Knight January 11, 2018 Spirituality Theology Women in the Church The Last Word
Article Resist & Be Not Afraid Our current president pushes us toward fear, insecurity, and selfishness, but the gospel says otherwise By John Gehring January 11, 2018 Donald Trump Immigration Race Domestic Affairs Bishops
Article Liturgies of Loss Rowan Williams argues that the “tragic imagination” is a moral imagination By Steven Knepper January 8, 2018 Books Theology
Article An Interview with Archbishop Wilton Gregory John Gehring spoke to Archbishop Wilton Gregory about race and racism, immigration, and the shifting geographic center of the U.S. church By John Gehring January 2, 2018 Race Donald Trump Sexual-abuse Crisis Bishops
Article Lead Us Not into Temptation? Francis isn’t the first to question a key phrase of the Lord’s Prayer By Charles McNamara January 1, 2018 Pope Francis Theology Liturgy
Article How Christmas Was Trumpified Trump managed to weaponize the season with branding that turned Christmas upside down By Paul Moses December 28, 2017 Donald Trump
Article Staff Pick: ‘Isaac Hecker: An American Catholic’ A sweeping biography of an overlooked figure By Dominic Preziosi December 27, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Theology
Article Staff Pick: ‘The Hero’s Body’ A brutally candid account of obsession and grief By James Hannan December 26, 2017 Book Essay
Article A Christmas When Music Invited Me In Life is short, the world beautiful, and love urgently necessary By Rand Richards Cooper December 21, 2017 Music Spirituality
Article The ‘What’s-In-It-for-Me’ Tax Bill A one-two punch that will not only limit government’s ability to help those in need, but also hamper the vital work that nonprofits do By Paul Moses December 21, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Economy Health Care Poverty Social Justice Bishops
Article ‘What If You Woke Up One Day and All the Arabs Were Gone?’ All good learning is a discovery By William Collins Donahue December 20, 2017 Middle East Jewish-Christian Relations Foreign Affairs
Article A Report with Ramifications Recommendations from the final report of the Australian Royal Commission inquiry into sexual abuse cover celibacy and priestly formation By Massimo Faggioli December 20, 2017 Sexual-abuse Crisis Foreign Affairs Pope Francis Vatican II
Article What St. Francis & the Sultan Knew Well Contributor and author Paul Moses talks about his involvement with the upcoming PBS special ‘The Sultan and the Saint’ By The Editors December 20, 2017 Media Television Muslim-Christian Relations
Article Holy Tenderness One of the privileges of working with people who are homeless is that it has given me a chance to follow Jesus’ injunction literally By Greer Hannan December 18, 2017 The Last Word
Article A Burnt-Out Case The spiritual costs of the way we work By Jonathan Malesic December 14, 2017 Spirituality Theology
Article Guadalupe & Generosity A saint’s prophecy of embrace vs. a nation’s refusal to offer one By Paul Moses December 11, 2017 Immigration Domestic Affairs Pope Francis Latin America
Feature Wonders Never Cease How the modern period arose and how it has become another era, and in need of another name By Marilynne Robinson December 11, 2017 Secularism and Modernity Theology Spirituality
Article Not Worth a Cake? It’s hard to see how a baker’s claim to religious freedom doesn’t amount to discrimination By John Gehring December 7, 2017 LGBTQ issues Domestic Affairs Sexuality Supreme Court
Article ‘I’m Sure It Will Do a Lot of Good’ The importance of Francis’s response to Argentine bishops on Amoris Laetitia By Massimo Faggioli December 6, 2017 Bishops Pope Francis
Article What Now? The future, toward which hope is always oriented, seems bleak. But grace can break through By The Editors December 5, 2017 Spirituality Donald Trump War and Peace Editorial
Article Until All Are Welcome In solidarity with my Lutheran brothers and sisters in Christ, I do not receive the Eucharist By Cristina L. H. Traina December 4, 2017 Ecumenism U.S. Catholicism
Article Policing the Communion Line Leading with mercy is a far more effective strategy By Cathleen Kaveny November 29, 2017 Liturgy U.S. Catholicism Pope Francis
Article Keep Nonprofits Nonpartisan How lifting the Johnson Amendment would hurt churches By Paul Moses November 28, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Donald Trump Bishops
Article Nightmare Vision Darren Aronofsky’s film ‘mother!’ depicts how easily the Christian narrative can be redeployed to new and destabilizing uses By Travis LaCouter November 28, 2017 Movies Environment Theology
Article Out of Balance Is there a ‘diplomacy gap’ between the Vatican and the U.S.? By Massimo Faggioli November 27, 2017 Donald Trump U.S. Catholicism Bishops
Article The Böckenförde Paradox Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde’s work bridges some of the current divisions in our church and our politics By Michael J. Hollerich November 27, 2017 Ethics Theology
Article Pope Francis’s Supporters Should Make Themselves Heard Those who support Pope Francis’s leadership tend to keep a fairly low profile compared to his critics By Rita Ferrone November 24, 2017 Pope Francis U.S. Catholicism Columnists
Article A Right Not to Fight Peace-seekers today face an opportunity By Bernard G. Prusak November 20, 2017 War and Peace Ethics
Article The Bishops Hand Pope Francis a Loss What framework will the church use to understand its commitment to defending life without getting boxed in by a two-party political culture? By John Gehring November 16, 2017 Bishops Abortion Pope Francis U.S. Catholicism
Article Mass Murder & the Philippine Church Rodrigo Duterte criticizes the Catholic Church to discredit any institution that may challenge his murderous regime. By Paul Moses November 15, 2017 Foreign Affairs Bishops Donald Trump
Article A Walk in the Woods Where was—where is—the Whatever to make it all okay? By Betsy Johnson-Miller November 14, 2017 Spirituality
Article Was It Better Back Then? Some segments of American Catholicism seem enchanted with medieval Christianity By Massimo Faggioli November 13, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Vatican II Pope Francis Pope Benedict XVI Pope John Paul II
