Review: Avoiding binary thinking in the church
Matthew Becklo’s ‘The Way of Heaven and Earth: From Either/Or to the Catholic Both/And,’ argues that the Catholic tradition is not about falling into a binary of heaven and earth, but ascending with both.
Review: Kathleen Norris on a sister’s love
Kathleen Norris’s profound new book ‘Rebecca Sue’ is a kind of double memoir of Norris’s sister, who had suffered from severe mental disabilities, as well of the author herself and her family.
Review: Christianity against empire
Do you know that hauntingly beautiful moment in a story where the narrator zooms the perspective out just enough for you to see that everything is connected? When the shocking realization dawns that the plot was driven by an unseen force the entire time, our experience of the story itself is altered. Reading Kat Armas’s newest book, Liturgies for Resisting Empire, inspires the same feeling of being awakened to the unseen forces that affect our lives. Liturgies for Resisting Empire by Kat Armas Brazos Press224p $20 The dominating influence that Armas outlines throughout her book is “a theology of empire,…
Review: How the suburbs changed the church
Focusing on Long Island, in New York, Stephen Koeth’s ‘Crabgrass Catholicism’ traces the institutional adjustments that occurred as once-urban Catholic families took up suburban living after World War II.
Journeying through Lent with Augustine and Pope Leo
If you really want to understand the harrowing, vulnerable journey of Lent, picture the plight of the migrant.
Finding my ancestors on a famine walk through Ireland
This 12-mile walk is a choice for me, my sister and my niece; all of us have traveled many miles to be here today. But walking is also what people do when they have nothing left to lose.
Behind the scenes of Pope Leo XIV’s election
America’s senior Vatican correspondent chronicles the moments leading to the first American pope.
Our readers on the Trump administration’s actions in Venezuela
The editors suggested that the new “ethos of naked self-interest” will render the world less stable. Our readers responded.
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