Paul Elie, born in 1965, has worked as an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux since 1993. His writing has appeared in such publications as Commonweal and the New Republic.
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Circa 1980, tradition and authority are in the ascendant, both in Catholicism and in American civic life. But the public is deeply divided on issues of body and soul, devotion and desire. Enter the figures Paul Elie calls 'cryptoreligious'—Leonard C... SEE MORE