Chile’s fertility rate has fallen below one child per woman, and the question that raises is not whether parents still love their children, but what a society owes the people it asks to do the caring.
Emily Theus speaks with Susannah Crockford about her new book on religion and climate change.
Historically, it’s been interpreted as one should be expectant of the Second Coming of Christ at all times… Yet the parable seems to be simpler than this. It’s about being intentional, present, and prepared.
This was a riff on the familiarly Aristotelian concept of the monstrous birth, in which a child came out lacking resemblances to his mother and father (mainly his father)—a kind of monstrous rebirth, in which the work of semen and gestation was written over by the work of alien suckling.
Cara Rock-Singer examines what reproductive processes reveal about religious and political life and shows how Jewish tradition is transmitted and reinvented through the ongoing labor of reproduction.
Who are you: a tasty morsel or unpalatable fibre? Choose wisely, because the dinner bell is ringing.
Progressive Catholic commentators persistently interpret Pope Leo XIV as a character in America’s resistance to Donald Trump. His July 4 visit to Lampedusa implies that he is conveying a significantly larger narrative.
If you call someone to turn back to dust, you must prepare to be called upon in return.
The presence of technological elites in the Vatican at the release of Magnfica Humanitas indicates a shift in perspective concerning democracy. Put bluntly, it is not just human labor that is at stake; democracy hangs in the balance.
Davidson’s Saving Utopia narrates the decline and renews the call for utopic vision, but, if we forget the imbrication of heaven with hell—of utopia with dystopia—we will be doomed to repeat it.
The economy of Spirit, like God’s polity, is countercultural. The way out of the trap of living within the lie that the world is defined by boundaries shaped by tyranny and obedience to it, is to tell the truth that life demands freedom and creativity, valuing relationships over material things.