It Starts in Mexico: Rethinking immigration reform
Immigration reform is not domestic policy; its foreign policy.
A Catholic Call To the Common Good
Victor Hugo, the 19th-century French writer, famously remarked that nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. The common good—a classic theme of moral and political philosophy with deep roots in Catholic social teaching—is an old idea that has found new life in contempor
Farming With Junk: A rumination on fidelity
At dawn I fired up my old Ford farm tractor. It is three years older than I am and the same age as my wife, who has weathered the decades far better than it has. Various fluids leak out when it is parked or running. The power steering works only occasionally. The engine runs hot…
The Kingdom of God in the Time of AIDS: An Interview with Michael Czerny
You have argued that we need to look beyond medicine in dealing with H.I.V. in Africa. Can you flesh out your position? We learn as we go along that AIDS is very complex. H.I.V. is a virus that reduces and destroys the immune system. But it’s also a cultural, familial, communal an
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Air Time Given to Presidential Campaigns
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
The agony of October baseball
Letters
Letters
Staying the Course The problem with your latest editorial on Iraq, A Diplomatic Surge (10/8), is that like many Democrats and some Republicans, you have embraced defeat. The template of the media and liberals in general at the very beginning of this war was and is defeat: This is Vietnam, and we can
Editorials
‘Jaw, Jaw,’ Not ‘War, War’
The visit of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, to the United Nations General Assembly in New York during the week of Sept. 23 presented a sad series of missed opportunities. The city’s tabloids, with their vitriolic headlines, and pressure groups, with their hostile protests, express
Faith in Focus
15 Minutes to Let God Lead: Walking with Francis de Sales and Ignatius Loyola
The lessons of Francis de Sales and Ignatius Loyola
Books
Its About Tradition
This is an important book for the crucial question it raises and its mode of response as much as for how well it succeeds It asks about 8220 how to pass on religious tradition to youth in the context of the contemporary culture of the United States 8221 The response derived from papers of a
O Troubled Town of Bethlehem
A Middle Eastern murder mystery, reviewed
The Word
Persistence in Prayer
Luke rsquo s Gospel is sometimes called ldquo the Gospel of Prayer rdquo because in it Jesus prays at the most important moments in his life and because it contains two substantial instructions devoted to Jesus rsquo teachings on prayer 11 1-13 and 18 1-14 In the first passage Jesus offers a s
Columns
The Plight of G.M.
Can U.S. automakers recover?
Culture
A Visit With Donald McCaig: One writer visits another, whose life is about to change.
I met the writer Donald McCaig a decade ago on a sheep farm he had created for himself near Williamsville, Va., (pop. 16) in rural Highland County. He had left the tense and competitive ad game in New York more than 25 years earlier. My wife, Judy, and I went for a weeklong stay. …
Current Comment
Current Comment
A Church in Qatar Despite the bleak news about the situation of Christians in much of the Middle East, there are occasional bright spots and reasons for hope. One glows in the southern part of Doha, the capital of Qatar, on a large parcel of land provided by the emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Th
News
Signs of the Times
Archbishop O’Brien Installed in Baltimore A crowd of about 2,000 people filled the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore Oct. 1 to celebrate the installation of Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien as the 15th archbishop of Baltimore. In a ceremony rich with tradition, Archbishop O’Brien
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