Editorials
The Abortion Debate Today
When the annual March for Life was held in Washington, D.C., last month to protest the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, (Jan. 22, 1973), the marchers were adamant and upbeat.
Articles
Abortion, Faith and Politics
On a January Monday, after busloads of pilgrims returned from this year’s March for Life in Washington, D.C., Catholics in the Archdiocese of St.
The Bible, the Jews and the Passion
A week or so before Ash Wednesday this year, the Committee for Ecumenical Affairs of the U.S.
Blocks in the Road
The 10th anniversary of the signing of the Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel occurred on Dec. 30, 2003. David-Maria A.
The School of the Heart
We can be forgiven if we think the spirituality of aging applies only to the septuagenarians among us, but aging is a tricky term, for we are aging from the instant of our conception, and then there i
The Movie: Defense and Dissent
The publication of the bishops’ document just before Lent will be followed closely--on Ash Wednesday, in fact--by the release of a controversial movie "The Passion of the Christ," produced and dire
Books and Culture
Books
In 1995, in Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, Jonathan Kozol opened a window on the rock-bott
Books
For Eugene Kennedy, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago (1928-96) is an exemplar of the paschal mystery: “Joseph Bernardin’s life tells
Books
Ernest Hemingway’s famous comment about taking up a collection and sending John O’Hara off to Yale once for all may have been a cheap sho
Television
Sarah Jessica Parker has spent a lot of time at America House. Well, not really.
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