Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Dirty Laundry
The town’s dilapidated LaundromatIs packed this morning with a crowd of menAnd women, hauling bulky laundry sacks—A…
On a Photograph of My Cousin Jean
As lovely as a girl aged twenty-two / can be—intelligent, slim, self-possessed, / and beautiful. It’s Florida;…
My Shamanic Healing
When I last visited New Orleans, the Robert E. Lee Monument was being used as an altar.…
The Jew’s Lament
The Jews’ saddest day is the Ninth of Av, which this year is Tuesday. During a fast…
Pride and Progress
When God judges Israel, he throws the world clock into reverse and makes time run backwards. In…
In Defense of Converts
Over at the National Catholic Reporter blog, Michael Sean Winters is pointing readers to a recent Al-Jazeera…
Our Cultural Waterloo
Tradition ascribes to the Duke of Wellington the saying that the Battle of Waterloo was won on…
What Are We For?
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and…
Theology of the Booty
They’re Cows, We’re Pigsby carmen boullosagrove press, 192 pages, $12 A few years ago, the website You…
Mary Magdalene, Feminist Icon?
Tomorrow Christendom observes the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. The woman from Magdala in Galilee was a…
Putting Infants “Down Like Dogs”
The Charlie Gard tragedy has renewed public advocacy for legalizing infanticide. Writing in the New York Times…
Romanticism of the “Lost Cause”
The ongoing conflict over the removal of Confederate statues in New Orleans, Charlottesville, and elsewhere has provoked…
Spadaro Contra Franciscum
Fr. Antonio Spadaro and Rev. Marcelo Figueroa have a recent item in the Italian Jesuit review La Civiltà Cattolica, complaining…
Difficult Translation
The Face of Water:A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bibleby sarah rudenpenguin random house, 272…
We Want God
It’s been some days since President Trump delivered his speech in Poland on “the West,” but the…
