Editorials
In Search of Consensus
As the U.S. Senate began its confirmation debate on President Bush’s nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr.
Articles
Thoughts on Yom Kippur
From the evening of Oct. 3 (the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year) till dark on Oct.
Rituals at Auschwitz-Birkenau
We can define ritual as a re-enactment of a previous event, in some cases a traumatic one, within the safety of sympathetic relationships.
A War on Children
My friend Sunday Obote was just 7 years old when the Lord’s Resistance Army stormed his family home in northern Uganda one night in 1994. The L.R.A.
The New Name for Peace
Andrew S. Natsios, administrator for the U.S.
Unfinished Work
As we mark this month the 40th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council’s “Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions,” the Israeli government
Books and Culture
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Jacques Maritain was the incarnation of Catholic intellectual lifea spirit alive with ideas, supremely sensitive to other persons, filled wi
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In 1918, the German religion scholar Friedrich Heiler published his great phenomenological study of prayer, which, for all its merits and sy
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Most Irish Americans have the impression that the history of Irish America began in the 19th century, when over three million Irish, mostly
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Has the pluribus in the vaunted boast begun to submerge, even eradicate, the unum?
