Last thoughts on an intriguing book about how the Catholic Church confronted the realities of the 20th century in Europe.

Dawn Eden Goldstein was born into a Jewish family, but in her teens and 20s—dealing with cycles suicidal depression—charted her own path as a journalist and devotee of the religion of punk rock.

James Carroll’s article gives no hint that we are all, in fact, sinners in need of salvation; he argues that the only thing lay Catholics need to be saved from is Catholicism itself.

Today, 16 of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the A.J.C.U. are led by lay presidents, three of whom are women. Their perspectives as lay women professionals in leadership has brought needed skills to their institutions and created opportunities to clarify their institutions’ Jesuit mission and identity.

Today, it is the rule—not the exception—that there are at least as many students of color in my classrooms as white students.

The Catholic Book Club's new selection studies the Catholic Church's ecclesial response to modernity over the last century.