Cardinal Becciu can testify against fellow defendant, Vatican tribunal rules (CNA)
A Vatican tribunal has ruled that Cardinal Angelo Becciu can offer testimony against a fellow defendant, Cecilia Marogna, in the landmark financial-misconduct trial. Cardinal Becciu had said that his work with Marogna, a security consultant, involved sensitive matters covered by the pontifical seal, and he could not testify about them. But at a March 30 […]
Ordinary Wonders
Ordinary Wonders By Katherine Lucky March 29, 2022 An extraordinary life deserves a memoir. Perhaps the author was raised in dire poverty or in a cult. Perhaps they experienced great success as an athlete, actress, politician, or musician. Perhaps they had an epiphany in the mountains, or survived a rare disease. If not, then they […]
Catholics for Zemmour
Catholics for Zemmour By Harrison Stetler March 29, 2022 This April’s presidential election in France was set to be a civilizational battle, a do-or-die, last-quarter fight for national identity and survival. But the Russian invasion of Ukraine has forced the media cycle to catch up, at least momentarily, with studies showing that most French people […]
Wachapreague
Wachapreague By Rand Richards Cooper March 29, 2022 The room next to Langen’s had been his brother-in-law’s man-cave. Langen had helped Liddie clean it out, leaving only books, framed nature photos Jason had taken over the years, and his worktable for making fishing lures—a colorful fly in mid-construction, left the day he died. One afternoon […]
The Influence of Anxiety
The Influence of Anxiety By Adam Fleming Petty March 30, 2022 Chile, like Ireland, is a sparsely populated, geographically isolated country that produces a staggering number of poets. Two Chileans have won the Nobel Prize: Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and Pablo Neruda in 1971. Mistral’s image appears on the country’s currency; Neruda’s homes form an […]
Poem | D., Gardening
Poem | D., Gardening By Christian Wiman March 30, 2022 One form of matter completed by grief. One psalm so utter its form is life. One fire further than the one in which we’ve burned. One world more than our wounds have earned. One love so lavish it is not one. She looks up, for […]
Letters | Ukraine, Reconciliation, AI, Lyme Disease
Letters | Ukraine, Reconciliation, AI, Lyme Disease By The Editors March 30, 2022 MORAL AGENTS I count myself as an admirer of Andrew Bacevich, but I find little merit in his suggestion that the West and Russia could ever have made Ukraine safely and permanently neutral in the way that they made Austria neutral […]
Poem | Civilize the Sacrifice
Poem | Civilize the Sacrifice By Joshua Hren March 30, 2022 It seemed to me only proper that words Should be withheld from vegetables and birds. —“Their Lonely Betters,” W. H. Auden She is at home with a hard providence, A field of measly, mealy beets, An army of aphids repeating its beat. Purple stems, […]
Poem | Tiramisu
Poem | Tiramisu By Stephen Rybicki March 30, 2022 Snow falling: I brought some home to her Late yesterday (Figment of my imagination) she had a taste Which I was asked to satiate This extra-large piece of Italian dessert she eats now in bed with an espresso And summons me to come and see how […]
Poem | Vegetables
Poem | Vegetables By Theodore Worozbyt March 30, 2022 Picking crookneck squash I am sure no mistake is beyond me. I am making history in the green exacting plenitude of sphagnum and Voltaire. I pick things up that walk slowly. Box turtle, ironwood beetle sunning on granite. No touching the cabbage butter- fly, clearly no […]