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The Public Square

The Crisis of Our Time


by R. R. Reno

Letters

Letters


by Various

Opinion

The Beastly Paradox


by Francesca Aran Murphy

Faith-Based Resistance


by Charles L. Glenn

Recovering Creativity


by Colin Moran

Essays

Reckoning with Modernity

Why Vatican II was a necessary council at just the right time

by Bruce D. Marshall

A Jubilee Year of Mercy


by Charles J. Chaput

Two Theories of Immigration


by Mark R. Amstutz

Living with a Mind


by Roger Scruton

Reviews

Raw Tales


by Russell A. Berman

Go Figure


by Michael C. Legaspi

Pope Packer


by Wesley Hill

Revealing God


by Robert P. Imbelli

Accepting Limits


by Joseph E. Davis

While We're At It

While We're At It

Boys in school, Synod, etc.

by R. R. Reno

The Back Page

Habetis Papam


by David Bentley Hart

Poetry

Roll Call at Acheron


by Andrew Frisardi

An Epitaph for my Parents' Graves


by Catherine Savage Brosman

The Joke around the Water Cooler and Other Dilemmas


by Marjorie Maddox

Sabbath


by Amy Imbody

The Christmas Preface


by James Matthew Wilson

There Are Books in the House


by Rachel Hadas

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