Michael Harrington was America’s much-needed conscience on issues of poverty in the 1960s and later.
Literature
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Review: Catholic militants in the present day
In ‘Catholic Fundamentalism in America,’ Mark Massa, S.J., describes the birth and growth of Catholic fundamentalism over the past six decades.
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Remembering Phyllis Trible, who challenged our image of God as male or female
“The God of scripture is beyond sexuality, neither male nor female, nor a combination of the two,” the renowned scholar Phyllis Trible said in a 1989 interview.
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An editor’s editor: Walter Abbott, S.J., and the documents of Vatican II
Though ‘The Documents of Vatican II’ remains Walter Abbott’s signature achievement in the eyes of many Catholics, the publication was just one moment in a lifetime of notable work on behalf of the church and the world in fields ranging from Scripture, ecumenism, racial justice and spirituality.
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An ongoing reckoning with anti-Semitism: 60 years since ‘Nostra Aetate’
60 years ago next week, “Nostra Aetate” was promulgated, marking a definitive change in the church’s approach toward the Jewish people and its own history.
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Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shklovsky: Preaching lessons from Russian literature
Preach host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., talks with Cameron Bellm on how Russian literary wisdom can make familiar Bible parables feel fresh.
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The patron saint of undergraduate philosophers: Frederick Copleston
The books of Frederick Copleston, S.J., continue to grace the bookshelves of philosophers, seminarians, college students and many others as an invaluable resource of clear-headed, insightful explication of the entire history of Western philosophy.
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Review: Ross Douthat on why everyone should be religious
Ross Douthat addresses weighty topics in his new book, but his reasons for belief are often puzzling.
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Review: The mysterious Muriel Spark
The force and clarity of Frances Wilson’s arguments in ‘Electric Spark,’ however debatable, do her subject the literary justice she deserves.
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Flannery O’Connor’s artistic visions
Flannery O’Connor’s drawings, cartoons and paintings offer another way to take the measure of a woman who took the measure of our souls.