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Issue 06

Corpus Christi 2021

Our sixth issue includes Giorgio Agamben on medical religion, Josh Craddock on the Fourteenth Amendment, Sam Kriss on screens, Edmund Waldstein on Pope Benedict XVI, and Jaspreet Singh Boparai on Joseph de Maistre, plus contributions from Jamie McGowan, Brett Kostrzewski, Nic Rowan, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Jake Neu, Adriana Watkins, John Wilson, and others.

The Medical Religion

Giorgio Agamben

The new religion offers no prospect of salvation or redemption.

All in the family

Michael Hamill

I have written before about how to talk about the pope, and here I am writing about it again, at… Read More

Letter to a Friend

Urban Hannon

On the need to sing and keep going.

The Herbert McCabe I Knew

Aidan Nichols

A reminiscence of the storied Dominican theologian.

The Lamp Christmas Ghost Story Contest

This year Tʜᴇ Lᴀᴍᴘ is sponsoring a Christmas ghost story competition in the spirit of Dickens and M.R. James. When… Read More

New Title, Same Boss

Mary Kate Skehan

In 1956, my grandfather had just gotten out of the Army, and was living with his family in Brighton, on… Read More

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