Editorials
In Katrina's Wake
The full extent of the damage done and suffering inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities will not be known for some time.
Loss and Gain
As a new academic year begins, generalizations about American Catholic elementary and secondary education are risky, because there are signs both of losses and gains.
Articles
Why Don't Catholics Share Their Faith?
In these pages in the spring of 2004, John C. Haughey, S.J., noted that many of his non-Catholic students are not shy about making personal faith statements, both in the classroom and outside.
A Letter to Young American Catholics
My dear younger brothers and sisters: I write, as an older brother, to encourage you. Last month more than a million young Catholics gathered with Pope Benedict XVI in Cologne for World Youth Day. Twenty-five thousand of them were from the United States. The Lord entrusts the future of the church to young people like them and you. Our countryman Walt Whitman once wrote:
Youth,large, lusty, loving,
Books and Culture
Books
A generation ago, the rock band The Who venerated and mocked their spiritually restless Baby Boomer peers in their song The Seeker, bragging
Books
“But what if Scola becomes pope?” Such was my e-mail response to America’s request that I do this book review.
Books
The novelist Michael Cunningham leapt into the spotlight with The Hours (1998), a meditative spinoff of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs.
Film
Can you find a connection between these three statements? 1. Hollywood complains that box-office is way down this summer. 2.
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The Word
Faith in Focus
Of Many Things
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