What’s at stake when a president is impeached?

by Matt Malone, S.J. October 4, 2019

For only the fourth time in the history of the Republic, the American people face the real possibility that the president of the United States will be impeached and removed from office.

Arts & Culture, Of Many Things

How grace transcends conflict in ‘West Side Story’ (and beyond)

by Matt Malone, S.J. September 20, 2019

All violence flows in some way from a failure to understand that our infinite desire for love can be satisfied only by the one who alone is the infinite source of that desire, Matt Malone, S.J. writes.

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Of Many Things, Politics & Society

Britain’s current political woes resemble our own

by Matt Malone, S.J. September 6, 2019

The fact that the national legislatures of both the United States and the United Kingdom are unable to govern properly cannot be a mere coincidence.

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Faith, Of Many Things

If we want Catholics to understand church teaching on the Eucharist, we need a fresh approach

by Matt Malone, S.J. August 21, 2019

Pew explains, “just one-third of U.S. Catholics (31 percent) say they believe that ‘during Catholic Mass, the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Jesus.’”

Of Many Things, Politics & Society

A statue of George Washington in London reminds us that all empires fall

by Matt Malone, S.J. August 9, 2019

This statue, which was permitted by an excess of imperial pride, now serves as a symbol of the humbling inflicted by the vicissitudes of history, writes Matt Malone, S.J.

Of Many Things, Politics & Society

Why we published an essay sympathetic to communism

by Matt Malone, S.J. July 23, 2019

You should not assume that America’s editorial position on communism has changed very much. It has not, Matt Malone, S.J. writes. What has also not changed is our willingness to hear views with which we may disagree but that we nonetheless think are worth hearing.