Review: Making a home in a time of alienation
In her new book, Uprooted, Grace Olmstead investigates the social and personal costs of shopping for a place to live the way we shop for cars.
Review: African soldiers find kinship in the trenches of World War I
David Diop’s new novel centers on the filial love between two Senegalese riflemen, close childhood friends who joined the French army because they hoped to become French citizens at the end of World War I.
Review: A story of Indigenous family, trauma and survival
Diane Wilson’s book ‘The Seed Keeper’ is an immersive, affecting account of family and history, trauma and survival, seeds and gardening, stories and healing.
Eucharistic politics: Readers react to the Communion debate
In November, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a teaching document on the Eucharist at their fall meeting by a vote of 222 to 8, with three abstaining. Our coverage elicited hundreds of comments. Here are some samples.
Jimmy McGovern, the atheist with the most Catholic shows on British TV
Jimmy McGovern’s work is marked by a very Catholic instinct to look where no one else will.
’It isn’t Latin or Greek I’m teaching, but how to think’: Memories of a formative Jesuit educator
As a young Jesuit teacher at Canisius High School in Buffalo, N.Y., John W. Donohue, S.J., worked with Thomas J. Jones, the senior member of the lay faculty. “From him I was to learn more about the practice of teaching than from any book or course in education,” Donohue wrote.
The January 6 Insurrection Is Still a Crisis for American Democracy
The United States must be capable of holding to account those who abandon deliberative self-governance for a politics based on exploiting outrage and resentment.
Catholic youth basketball taught me beautiful (and painful) lessons about fatherhood
How did all of the efforts that had borne buckets a year ago result in so many losses in our final year?
The gift of burnout: How quitting my job allowed me to flourish
We should not have to empty ourselves for the company or college.
The painful, grace-filled and (hopefully) healing process of seeking an annulment
What does the church really teach about this widely misunderstood process, and how does it play out in the lives of ordinary Catholics?