Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

A New Conservative Agenda

Daniel McCarthy

What has been known as conservatism in the Republican party since Ronald Reagan left office, fully thirty…

Letter to an Aspiring Priest

Thomas Joseph White

I’m grateful to you for getting in touch. Many people today would no doubt think you are…

The Past in Full

Charles L. Glenn

There’s a book I keep in the bathroom at home, a big blue volume of 750 pages…

Baptism of Blood

Martin Mosebach

It is a scrupulously made short film, shot with several ­cameras in 2015. Arabic letters dance atop…

Boy on the Temple Roof

Shalom Carmy

Young Rabbi Binder has opened the floor for a “free discussion” period at the afternoon Hebrew school…

The New Lazarus

Gary Saul Morson

The Aviatorby eugene vodolazkintranslated by lisa c. haydenoneworld, 400 pages, $26.99 In one of the greatest memoirs…

Miyazaki’s Reality

Michael Toscano

Miyazakiworld: A Life in Artby susan napieryale, 344 pages, $30 Never-Ending Man, a documentary that recently enjoyed…

Briefly Noted

Various

Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah by brant pitre image…

Digging Shakespeare

Joseph Mirra

I’d chosen English lit with the intentOf studying the writings of the Bard;But I was told he…

The Phone Not Ringing

Daniel Patrick Sheehan

The cumuli reach to the noontime moon.Nuthatch and warbler, starling and cowbird,Fall like the famished on seed…

The Annunciation I

Conor Kelly

Whispers of love were in the springtime airas I lay dreaming of our first full kissbeside the…

Letters

Various

Lay Leadership Citing mass disenfranchisement in a “papal-episcopal oligarchy,” ­Bronwen McShea (“Bishops Unbound,” January) argues for institutional…

The Future of News

Les Sillars

For about a century, American journalism had a paradigm that positioned the industry as essential to liberal…

Julien Green’s Vatican II

Paul Dean

Several years ago, I came across some odd volumes of the journal of Julien Green in a…

Methodist Schism

Dale M. Coulter

By the time the General Council concluded its business on Tuesday, it had sent shockwaves through the…