Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Sacraments Don’t Need Fixing
I’m at that time of life—mid-to-late twenties—when friends and acquaintances start to make lifelong commitments. And I…
Death of God Fifty Years On
On April 8, 1966, a five-thousand-word cover story appeared in Time magazine, sending the country into a…
Word Perfect
God is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran by navid kermani wiley, 400 pages, $45 According…
Letters
Human Wrongs R. R. Reno, agreeing with Yuval Levin, believes we must rid ourselves of our nostalgia…
Donald Trump, Man of Faith
Donald Trump is a man of faith. It’s true that during his presidential campaign he has demeaned…
All the East is Moving
For many years, German leaders had been struggling to cope with an influx of peoples across their…
Amnesty International Betrays Women
The vast majority of prostitutes are women—anywhere from 80 to 98 percent, depending on the study. Almost…
China’s Christian Future
( English Version | Simplified Chinese | Traditional Chinese ) At the end of the Chinese Civil…
Bigot-Baiting
I can’t imagine a policy more irrelevant to the problems facing our society than bathroom privileges for…
Briefly Noted
Red, White, Blue, and Catholicby stephen p. whiteliguori, 101 pages, $12.99 In this primer on Catholic citizenship,…
The New Middle Ages
The past is returning. Any return assumes a preceding departure. Perhaps, though, the past never left, and…
A Catholic Poet?
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevensby paul marianisimon & schuster, 496 pages, $30 It was…
Supple Mind
The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousnessby david gelernterliveright, 320 pages, $26.95 Neurobiologists and neuropsychologists…
Everyday Barbara Pym
In 1943, mourning the end of a short-lived love affair that would leave her (even months later)…
Martyr of the First Commandment
In 1945, during the final stages of World War II, the lifeless body of Josef Mayr-Nusser, an…