The Catholic Church & The World

Christine Emba writes about ideas for The Washington Post’s Opinions section. She is the author of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation. Before coming to The Post in 2015, Christine was the Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at the New Criterion and a deputy editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, focusing on technology and innovation. She grew up in Virginia and holds an A.B. in public and international affairs from Princeton University.

Paul Elie is a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He is the author of three books,  The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s (2025), The Life You Save May Be Your Own (2003) and Reinventing Bach (2012), as well as dozens of essays, articles and reviews for the New York Times and its Book Review and Sunday magazine, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and Commonweal.