Thank you for hosting the post-Dobbs symposium (“Pro-Life Politics After Dobbs,” June/July) of observations and suggestions by individuals who have done so much already for the pro-life cause. As I understand their reflections, they mainly lament the lack of effective political . . . . Continue Reading »
The other month, I attended a conference thick with members of the clergy. It had everything you would expect: bad bagels for breakfast, a hurried nondenominational prayer to kick things off, and meeting rooms stacked with priests, rabbis, and imams grateful for a day off from the pulpit. I didn’t . . . . Continue Reading »
It is impossible to bless a couple without blessing the relationship that constitutes the two persons as a couple. Fiducia Supplicans is a manifest disaster that should be revoked and withdrawn by the Holy See. Continue Reading »
In 2016, Kaeley McEvoy was a student at New York’s Union Theological Seminary and a ministry intern at Judson Memorial Church in Washington Square. She hadn’t expected to get pregnant; a long-acting contraceptive implant was supposed to have prevented it. But the pink line on the plastic test . . . . Continue Reading »
In The People’s Justice, Judge Amul Thapar adroitly assumes the role of storyteller to defend an influential and controversial jurist’s reputation. He recounts twelve prominent cases that have come before Justice Clarence Thomas during his thirty-two-year term on the Supreme Court. The book . . . . Continue Reading »
Is there something bold and life-affirming in faith, as there is in play? Continue Reading »
I treasure one recurring experience of assembling these puzzles. Continue Reading »
Sinéad O’Connor, the troubled Irish singer-songwriter, died in July at age fifty-six. No cause of death has been announced, but it is fair to note that at times she both predicted and welcomed her own demise. Her son Shane committed suicide in 2022. Not long after, she vowed, “I’ve decided . . . . Continue Reading »
Eugene Vodolazkin's latest book is a chronicle of a fictional island, written by many hands. It’s a perfect Bakhtinian set-up, a Dostoevskyan dialogic novel where diverse viewpoints are given equal time.
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Even the “mundane” happenings of a single day exceed our grasp, let alone the span of a lifetime. Continue Reading »
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