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saints are pictured in an altarpiece, they have gold halos and many colored robes
Faith Features
June 29, 2023
In the anniversary edition of All Saints, Robert Ellsberg reveals his background with the saints and how he was inspired by so many ordinary and extraordinary people.
robert ellsberg on the right wearing a suit crouches next to sister wendy who is wearing her habit
Faith Faith in Focus
November 04, 2022
This selection from our conversations about the Trappist monk Thomas Merton is one of the fascinating threads in the book, which turned out to be about more than it seemed.
Faith Last Take
August 04, 2022
Tom Cornell, who died on Aug. 1 at the age of 88, was truly one of the architects of the American Catholic peace movement.
Arts & Culture Ideas
April 21, 2021
Half a century later, Robert Ellsberg looks back on his father’s famous release of the Pentagon Papers—and the consequences of that decision for his father, for him and for the nation.
Faith Faith in Focus
March 10, 2021
Even as a child she sensed that Africa was her destiny, the roots of her mission vocation found in a fourth-grade geography textbook that pictured giraffes loping across the plain
Faith Short Take
June 15, 2020
‘Black Like Me’ went beyond social observation to examine an underlying disease of the soul.
Daniel Ortega flanks Pope John Paul II who wags his finger at culture minister and priest Ernesto Cardenal, during welcoming ceremonies at the airport in Managua, Nicaragua, in March 1983. (AP Photo/Barricada, File)
Politics & Society Columns
March 04, 2020
Thomas Merton wrote an introduction to a lyrical book of reflections by Cardenal, Vida en Amor: “In a time of conflict, anxiety, war, cruelty, and confusion, the reader may be surprised that this book is a hymn in praise of love, telling us that ‘all things love one another.’”
Arts & Culture Books
April 30, 2018
God bless you, James: author, teacher, wrestling partner, spiritual godfather, beloved friend.
Faith Short Take
September 26, 2017
The saints and heroes of our faith have much to teach us about our contemporary political context.
Faith Features
February 21, 2017
We have to take the saints down from their pedestals.