Editorials
Asking Forgiveness
In the first Sunday of Lent, Pope John Paul II asked forgiveness for sins committed by Catholics over the last two millennia.
Articles
The Last Acceptable Prejudice?
The advertisement for a student-loan company features a picture of a nun in a veil with the legend "If you’re a nun, then you’re probably not a student." The movie "Jeffrey" includes a trash-talking p
Forgiving Their Debts
In ancient Israel, a jubilee year was a time to build the kinds of social relationships expected of God’s people.
If a Pope Resigns...
Our faith does not rest upon one person, or upon one office
Books and Culture
Books
Robert Clark’s parents divorced when he was two, and his father died of polio three years later, so he found himself in the care of his gran
Books
Concordats are treaties between states and the Holy See regulating the civil status of the church.
Books
John Phillip Santos is program officer at the Ford Foundation in New York and the first Mexican-American Rhodes scholar to study at Oxford.
Portfolio
I like to tell folks that I have a little black nun inside of me. She’s my muse, my spiritual guru, my inspiration.
Columns and Departments
The Word
Faith in Focus
Columns
Of Many Things
Letters
