Of Many Things
Where St. Ignatius stayed—and why
The further we get from the needs and the lives of the poor, the easier it is to forget that we have duties to them at all.
Your Take
‘America deserves a moral leader, not a bully’: Our readers on Trump’s second term
America’s readers weigh in on the president’s temperament and conduct.
Short Take
Men and boys are lost. The Catholic Church can give them a better model of manliness.
The “manosphere” calls for more testosterone, more spectacle. But servant leadership, embodied in Catholic men’s groups past and present, encompass the fullness of human experience.
Dispatches
How Mexico’s president is handling an unpredictable Trump—and gaining popularity
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s deft handling of the mercurial U.S. president has sent her approval rating soaring, reaching 85 percent in the latest survey from the newspaper El Financiero.
New Age weddings on the rise in Ireland as Catholic marriages decline
While Catholic weddings in Ireland have dropped over the past three decades, New Age marriages are rapidly gaining in prominence.
Are Dreamers the next targets in Trump’s immigration crackdown?
Diminishing public support, along with the Trump administration’s intense focus on immigration, has left DACA recipients uncertain about their future.
Features
The antidote to Christian nationalism
We need a healthier public square in which people of all backgrounds can work together.
Ministering to women survivors of sexual exploitation: How Milwaukee’s Franciscan Peacemakers saves lives
Franciscan Peacemakers is the home base for a social enterprise, which provides women survivors of sexual trafficking with work experience and a means to support themselves financially.
Faith and Reason
Why the Council of Nicaea still matters—1,700 years later
What happened at Nicaea in A.D. 325? And why is that still so important for Christian churches today?
Faith in Focus
I’m Catholic, and my wife is Protestant. Here’s what I’ve learned from my ecumenical marriage.
My Catholic identity and my wife’s Protestant identity continue to endure, and our faith has developed together in greater harmony, knowing that our love for each other was ultimately grounded in our love for God.
I went to the Met to look at Caspar David Friedrich’s landscapes. I didn’t expect to find my old Jesuit friend.
It was Drew Christiansen, S.J., even more than Thoreau or Aquinas, whom I was surprised to encounter amid the German landscapes on the Upper East Side.
Ideas
What will the restoration of Notre-Dame mean for the future of the French Catholic Church?
If the burning of Notre-Dame was a fitting symbol for the de-Christianization of France, could the restoration of Notre-Dame be a hopeful omen?
Books
Review: Who will shape fiction’s future?
In ‘Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the way it is molded in fiction—and how the novel evolved from the 19th century novel to that of the 20th century.
Review: Father Charles Strobel’s life of servant leadership
There is joy and heartbreak in Father Charles Strobel’s memoir, ‘The Kingdom of the Poor,’ but mostly joy.
Review: Tara Isabella Burton’s fairy tale for grownups
If what we need now is the kind of story that restores wonder to the world, Tara Isabella Burton’s ‘Here in Avalon’ provides one avenue to that destination.
Review: Earl Weaver and baseball’s balance between stories and statistics
In ‘The Last Manager,’ John W. Miller marries stories and statistics in a fascinating account of the life of Earl Weaver, the diminutive, cantankerous skipper who is the winningest manager since the moon landing.
Review: Charles Taylor on how poetry expresses our deepest yearnings
In ‘Cosmic Connections,’ Charles Taylor focuses on how art, and poetry in particular, both expresses and responds to the unique human experience of “being modern.”
Poetry
Matins
the wily accuser tempted him in just the way to confuse a savior: All this I will give you.
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above the Air Force Academy Chapel
Daydreams and memory are saving some Down there from shame
Last Take
Catholics, we must be more attentive to the poor and vulnerable who show up in our parishes
As a Black person who sometimes ministers in predominantly white parishes, I can appreciate how easy it is to feel out of place. It makes all the difference to hear words of welcome.
Faith
I’m Catholic, and my wife is Protestant. Here’s what I’ve learned from my ecumenical marriage.
My Catholic identity and my wife’s Protestant identity continue to endure, and our faith has developed together in greater harmony, knowing that our love for each other was ultimately grounded in our love for God.
Catholics, we must be more attentive to the poor and vulnerable who show up in our parishes
As a Black person who sometimes ministers in predominantly white parishes, I can appreciate how easy it is to feel out of place. It makes all the difference to hear words of welcome.
Where St. Ignatius stayed—and why
The further we get from the needs and the lives of the poor, the easier it is to forget that we have duties to them at all.
I went to the Met to look at Caspar David Friedrich’s landscapes. I didn’t expect to find my old Jesuit friend.
It was Drew Christiansen, S.J., even more than Thoreau or Aquinas, whom I was surprised to encounter amid the German landscapes on the Upper East Side.
Why the Council of Nicaea still matters—1,700 years later
What happened at Nicaea in A.D. 325? And why is that still so important for Christian churches today?
Ministering to women survivors of sexual exploitation: How Milwaukee’s Franciscan Peacemakers saves lives
Franciscan Peacemakers is the home base for a social enterprise, which provides women survivors of sexual trafficking with work experience and a means to support themselves financially.
Pope Francis shares his own health update: I am experiencing healing, in my soul and body
Pope Francis shared that he is experiencing “healing,” specifically “in my soul and my body,” as he reaches the eighth day of the minimum two-month period of rest and convalescence prescribed by his doctors.
New Age weddings on the rise in Ireland as Catholic marriages decline
While Catholic weddings in Ireland have dropped over the past three decades, New Age marriages are rapidly gaining in prominence.
Men and boys are lost. The Catholic Church can give them a better model of manliness.
The “manosphere” calls for more testosterone, more spectacle. But servant leadership, embodied in Catholic men’s groups past and present, encompass the fullness of human experience.
Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis shares his own health update: I am experiencing healing, in my soul and body
Pope Francis shared that he is experiencing “healing,” specifically “in my soul and my body,” as he reaches the eighth day of the minimum two-month period of rest and convalescence prescribed by his doctors.
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