Editors

Hundred of US Priests ask Synod to Stand Firm on Church Teaching
Mary Rezac, CNA

Baltimorean Justice
Br. Edmund McCullough,O.P., Dominicana

Bernini: He Had the Touch
Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books

On Fraternities & Manliness
Emily Esfanahi Smith, The New Criterion

Evangelical Protestants are the Biggest Winners When People Change Faiths
Leah Libreso, FiveThirtyEight

Locating Heaven
Br. Thomas Davenport, Dominicana

Reading Poetry
Jack Hanson, Open Letters Monthly

Do Persons Matter?
Scott Walter, Philanthropy Daily

Last Word In Deed: Baltimore Catholics Get to Work
Amanda Erickson, Commonweal

Reviving the Female Canon
Susan Price, The Atlantic

Prophesying to the Breath
Maryann Corbett, Verse Daily

Irish PM Says Country Must Seize Opportunity to Approve Gay Marriage
Padraic Halpin, Religion News Service

Notes on the Surrender at Menlo Park
John Herrman, The Awl

You Get What You Pay For
Aaron MacLean, Washington Free Beacon

The Real But Overstated Decline of American Christianity
Ross Douthat, The New York Times

Pope Francis Canonizes Two 19th-Century Palestinian Nuns
Francis X. Rocca and Joshua Mitnick, The Wall Street Journal

We Remember the Genocide—And We Must Avert Another
Mark L. Movsesian, Library of Law and Liberty

Against Kant and Consumerism
Gracy Olmstead, The American Conservative

Art Has Ceased to Be Beautiful or Interesting
Stephen Bayley, The Spectator

Facebook Begins Testing Instant Articles from News Publishers
Vindu Goel & Ravi Somaiya, The New York Times

Why Secular Liberalism Isn't Liberal
Forfare Davis, The University Bookman

“Academia is the Titanic”: Mark Bauerlein on Teaching in the New American University
Scott Kaufman, Salon

Catholicism v. Materialism
Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

America's Changing Religious Landscape
 Pew Forum

Keeping a Cool Head on Pope Francis' Environment Encyclical
Robert Royal, National Catholic Register

HHS Tightens Rules on Insurers Coverage of Contraception
Louise Radnofsky,Wall Street Journal

In Defense of Technology
Andrew O'Hagan, T Magazine

Ships
Tomaz Salamun, Poetry Magazine

Two Sisters, Two Views of Gay Marriage
Elizabeth Corey and Mary Campbell, The Atlantic

What's the Point of a Professor?
Mark Bauerlein,The New York Times

Will Rome Hold Germany's Bishops to Account?
Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register

Byron's Letters and Journals
Benjamin Markovits, The Telegraph

Review: Arriving at Amen
Br. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P., Dominicana

Marriage is Not About Fancy Clothes and Nice Flowers, Says Pope
Catholic News Service

Spinster and the “State of the Female” Article
B. D. McClay, Fare Forward

Lessons Learned
Edward Short, The Weekly Standard

Oxford's Influential Inklings
Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski, The Chronicle Review

Last week I read Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the kind of fun space romp that the Guardians of the Galaxy film tried to be without quite succeeding (the parodies of bureaucratic-speak and jokes about Guardian readers are enough to make a sad puppy smile). I also read King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou-choi, a very useful book on Hong Kong's Quixote, though I'm not persuaded that what he did is properly called “art.” I also reached the end of the Decameron and have started on it again, this time armed with notes.
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