Editorials
Food, Shelter or Medicine?
The United Nations has reported that the number of chronically hungry people worldwide is increasing at the rate of five million annually.
Articles
Paying the Piper
"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes, Benjamin Franklin observed in 1789.
What Vocation Shortage?
Despite all the talk about a vocation shortage, there is in fact no such thing in the Catholic Church. The real shortage is that of vocational discernment, and that is a very different problem.
Child Soldiers and the Lord's Resistance Army
Every night about 11:00 P.M., after four hours of more or less continued operation, the electric power goes out in Adjumani, Uganda.
Practicing What We Teach
Taxes and tax collectors have been around in one form or another for most of human history. Tax collectors appear in many of the Gospel stories, and the Evangelist Matthew was himself a tax man.
The Ministry of the Lector
Roman Catholics have not generally been thought of as people of the word, that is, of the Bible.
Books and Culture
Books
The front cover of Gabriel García Márquez’s Living to Tell the Tale shows the author as a wide-eyed child of 2, while the back c
Books
The confluence of advances in human genetics and reproductive science has resulted in the ability to design babies.
Books
When the second edition of Thomas Bokenkotter’s book appeared in 1990, the publisher boasted that over 125,000 copies were already in cir
Columns and Departments
The Word
Columns
Of Many Things
Letters
