May 20, 2013

Vol. 208 No. 17Whole No. 5012 Download PDF

Editorials

Life, Not Death

How we respond to events of inexplicable violence both reflects and shapes our values.

Current Comment

Shocking Assaults in India: Courage on the Court; Poverty and Generosity

Articles

The Divided Kingdom
James Hanvey

How can we ever forgive Meryl Streep for making Margaret Thatcher lovable?

A Post-Catholic Ireland?
Diarmuid Martin

I entered the seminary in Dublin in October 1962, just one week before the opening of the Second Vatican Council.

The Unspeakable
Daniel P. Horan

There are some events we encounter in life for which there is simply no language to describe adequately our experience or words capable of consoling the afflicted.

Books and Culture

Books
After Eden
William Reiser
'God’s Reign & the End of Empires' by Antonio González
Books
When the Messiah Comes
Kevin P. Spicer
'The War Within' by Yuval Elizur and Lawrence Malkin
Books
Populism and Poverty
Jeffrey Klaiber
When things go wrong in Latin America, the tendency is to write new laws or a new constitution.
Film
Taking the Field
Peter Folan, S.J.
'42' examines the thin line between courage and the vices of cowardice and recklessness.

Columns and Departments

The Word
God in Relationship
John W. Martens
Faith in Focus
I Remember Mary
Mary Valle
Can we revive a classic Catholic name?
Columns
A Mother's Love
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
Columns
Liberty or Death
Margot Patterson
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
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