October 2018
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Kennedy’s Last Term
Twenty-eighteen brought the end of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s tenure on the Supreme Court. We are now entering…
Reflections on the Revolution
I was born in San Francisco and went to a college barely an hour’s drive from the…
Ecumenical Winter?
In 1870, during a plenary session of the First Vatican Council, the Croatian bishop Josip Strossmayer complained…
Magisterial Irresponsibility
Luis Francisco Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has announced…
Catholicism After 2018
Theodore McCarrick has been stripped of his status as cardinal for pursuing young men throughout his clerical…
Briefly Noted
Inside the Mind of Thomas More: The Witness of His Writingsby louis w. karlin and david r.…
Where Liberalism Helps
A vast oblong of Islamist, authoritarian, or sectarian persecution stretches from Egypt, Eritrea, Turkey, and Sudan, all the…
Hate Signs
I just passed a sign in a store window that says, “No Vacancy for Hate.” Well, I thought,…
Homeless in Seattle
My name is Gil Costello, and I live at one of the Pike Place Market’s senior housing…
ELCA Hits Bottom
Schism is a serious matter. Even though the leaders of the congregations that left the Evangelical Lutheran…
Letters
reformation revisited Peter Hitchens is invariably witty and provocative. His recent essay (“Latimer and Ridley Are Forgotten,”…
You Better Like It
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American…
Vice and Fire
A Song of Ice and Fireby george r. r. martinbantam, 5216 pages, $36.39 No English child will…
The Imperial Conductor
Toscanini: Musician of Conscience by harvey sachsliveright, 944 pages, $39.95 When the first instruction manual for leaders…
The Spirit of Vatican I
Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Churchby john w. o’malleybelknap, 320 pages, $24.95…
Dr. Mumford
Good Dr. Mumford was an atheist;He didn’t really understand the Creed.But as a cautious-minded scientist,He thought it…
In the Gloom, the Gold
If our days were honeycombed with cells,waxy partitions, then the gold could oozeand spill its gleam and…
Oh Where Was God?
O where was God when all things fell apart;When with the fury went our hopes and dreams?We…
The Hawks in the Leaves
The silly chickens huddle in dismay.Each shadow cast by falling leaves they taketo be a hawk descending…
