Editors

Rowan Williams: Can We Ever Be In Charge of Our Own Lives?
Rowan Williams, The New Statesman

Called to Greatness: Vocation and Dignity
Sherif Girgis, Ethika Politica

Smith's Transgender Delusion
Jonathan V. Last, The Weekly Standard

German Bishops to Allow Employees in Same-Sex Unions
Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register

Life in the Public Square
Randy Boyagoda, Michael W. Higgins, Molly Worthen, CBC radio

Pope Francis suggests Divine Comedy as Vital Reading for Year of Mercy
Catholic News Service, Catholic Herald

Review: A Short Guide to Praying as a Family
Br. Joseph Martin Hagan, Dominicana

How to take Christ out of Christianity
Alana Massey, The Washington Post

The Conference Manifesto
Christy Wampole, The New York Times

On Fraternities and Manliness
Emily Esfahani Smith, The New Criterion

From Parent to Parenting
Joseph Epstein, Commentary

Only the Chaste
Bevil Bramwell, OMI, The Catholic Thing

Synod. The Proposal of a “Third Way”
Sandro Magister, Chiesa

Pope Francis, Tony Palmer, an iPhone & the Holy Spirit
Sean Connolly, Patheos

How Raising the Minimum Wage Hurts Small Bookstores
Gracy Olmstead, The American Conservative

Alba
Rick Mullin, The New Criterion

Another Misguided MOOC
Samuel Goldman, The American Conservative

Is the West's Loss of Faith Terminal?
Antony Gormley, Standpoint

Interview: David Brooks on sin and the state of his soul
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post

Millennials and Marriage: We've Lost the Concept of What Love Is
Matt Hadro, National Catholic Register

I went on a vacation last week and took with me Charles Singleton's beautiful updated edition of John Payne's translation of Boccaccio's Decameron. It's a perfect vacation book: large (952 pages in my edition), escapist (the characters retreat to the country to escape the Black Death ravaging Florence), and diverting. My intent was to read the tales of the book as they are told by its characters, ten per day. My vacation was cut short by unhappy circumstances, but my reading of the Decameron has continued, and continued to be a delight.
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Science and Miracles
Brother Thomas Davenport, O.P., Dominicana

Why Women Aren't Having Children
Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic

Littlemore Tracts
R.M.A. Pilon, Littlemore Tracts

Syrian Christian Leader Warns, We Could Disappear
John L. Allen, Crux

The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology
Thomas Joseph White, O.P., CUA Press

Copts and Robbers
Richard Tada, The Weekly Standard

Options
James Chastek, Just Thomism

A “War” Between Science and Religion?
Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

What's Owed
Dan Rosenberg, Verse Daily

Decline Into Silence
Daniel McInerny, The Catholic Thing

We Thinkers from the Gilt-Edged Margins
Christian Thorne,  Fare Forward

Our Kids: Facing Crisis Without Imagination
Isaiah Berg, Fare Forward

St. George: Patron Saint of England, Patronised by All
Christopher Howse, The Spectator

Officials: Islamic Extremist's Misfire Foiled Attack on Paris Christians
The Chicago Tribune

Up in Smoke—Plain Packaging and Brand Identity
Leann Davis Alspaugh,  The Hedgehog Review

Hillary Clinton Leaves Flowers for Our Lady of Guadalupe, asks ‘Who Painted It?'
Catholic News Agency

Too Many Books?
Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books