James Carroll
This Easter, Is Christianity Still Promulgating Antisemitism?
The Gospel narratives of the passion and death of Jesus have, across centuries, framed how Jews are perceived.
The Sins of the High Court’s Supreme Catholics
The overturn of Roe v. Wade is part of ultra-conservatives’ long history of rejecting Galileo, Darwin, and Americanism.
What the Era of Trump and the Coronavirus May Teach America’s Children
The myths of national nobility do not exist for today’s first graders.
Lessons to Be Learned from the Afghanistan Papers
What George W. Bush seemed not to know, in September, 2001, is that a self-justifying drive to “rid the world of evil” can itself become evil’s incubator. Does America know that yet?
Why Ed Markey, the Co-Sponsor of the Green New Deal, May Be Hopeful For Its Chances
With the Nuclear Freeze resolution, in 1982, Markey changed America’s position on a potential catastrophe. He could help do it again.
Can Elizabeth Warren and Adam Smith, Defying Trump, Persuade Americans to Get Serious About Nuclear-Arms Control?
“No first use” harkens back to the informal moral consensus that America is not a nation to start a nuclear war. Warren and Smith’s bill aims to enshrine that consensus in law.
Pope Francis and the Problematic Sainthood Cause of Cardinal August Hlond
Roman Catholic canonization is always as much about the present as about the past. So why would the Church elevate Hlond as a moral exemplar today?
What the Bible Really Says About Trump’s Zero-Tolerance Immigration Policy
God does not just “feel” for victims; God sides with them, period. This is the whole point of Biblical faith.
The Transformative Promise of Pope Francis, Five Years On
How the leader of the Catholic Church became a hero of the secular world.
What Puerto Rico Needs After Hurricane Maria
Every part of American society must respond to the island’s plight. That begins by paying attention.
The Pope’s Shrink and Catholicism’s Uneasy Relationship with Freud
Why was the news that Francis once saw a Jewish psychoanalyst so surprising?
The True Nature of John McCain’s Heroism
The Arizona senator, who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor, transformed the brutal experience of imprisonment into a rare political openness.
Pope Francis’s New Man in Newark
Like the Roman pontiff himself, Joseph Tobin represents a humane and magnanimous alternative to the dominant American Catholic hierarchy.
This Easter, Is Christianity Still Promulgating Antisemitism?
The Gospel narratives of the passion and death of Jesus have, across centuries, framed how Jews are perceived.
The Sins of the High Court’s Supreme Catholics
The overturn of Roe v. Wade is part of ultra-conservatives’ long history of rejecting Galileo, Darwin, and Americanism.
What the Era of Trump and the Coronavirus May Teach America’s Children
The myths of national nobility do not exist for today’s first graders.
Lessons to Be Learned from the Afghanistan Papers
What George W. Bush seemed not to know, in September, 2001, is that a self-justifying drive to “rid the world of evil” can itself become evil’s incubator. Does America know that yet?
Why Ed Markey, the Co-Sponsor of the Green New Deal, May Be Hopeful For Its Chances
With the Nuclear Freeze resolution, in 1982, Markey changed America’s position on a potential catastrophe. He could help do it again.
Can Elizabeth Warren and Adam Smith, Defying Trump, Persuade Americans to Get Serious About Nuclear-Arms Control?
“No first use” harkens back to the informal moral consensus that America is not a nation to start a nuclear war. Warren and Smith’s bill aims to enshrine that consensus in law.
Pope Francis and the Problematic Sainthood Cause of Cardinal August Hlond
Roman Catholic canonization is always as much about the present as about the past. So why would the Church elevate Hlond as a moral exemplar today?
What the Bible Really Says About Trump’s Zero-Tolerance Immigration Policy
God does not just “feel” for victims; God sides with them, period. This is the whole point of Biblical faith.
The Transformative Promise of Pope Francis, Five Years On
How the leader of the Catholic Church became a hero of the secular world.
What Puerto Rico Needs After Hurricane Maria
Every part of American society must respond to the island’s plight. That begins by paying attention.
The Pope’s Shrink and Catholicism’s Uneasy Relationship with Freud
Why was the news that Francis once saw a Jewish psychoanalyst so surprising?
The True Nature of John McCain’s Heroism
The Arizona senator, who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor, transformed the brutal experience of imprisonment into a rare political openness.
Pope Francis’s New Man in Newark
Like the Roman pontiff himself, Joseph Tobin represents a humane and magnanimous alternative to the dominant American Catholic hierarchy.