Curbing Medical Costs: The ‘unpopular’ problem
The health care problem no one wants to talk about
A Tale of Two Elephants: Overcoming the postelection crisis in Kenya
Local and international observers quote a popular saying to characterize the current postelection crisis in Kenya: “When two elephants fight, the grass suffers.” For us in Kenya this is not just a quaint figure of speech. It aptly describes the catastrophe that has rocked the country sin
Debating ‘The Boys from Dolores’ II: Civil society in Cuba, and the future of a stormy relationship
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Dear Nelson,
The election of Raúl Castro as president of the “Councils of State and of Ministers,” and therefore head of state of Cuba, on Feb. 24 marks the formal end of the reign of Fidel Castro, the most famous of the “boys from Dolores.” Since the…
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Called to Compassion Regarding At the End of Life, by Thomas A. Shannon (2/18): Although not a theologian, doctor or hospice caregiver, I have been a primary decision maker for my mother, father and mother-in-law for end-of-life medical issues. In all three cases we came to a unanimous family decisi
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Cuba S, Castro No!
Time has accomplished what a U.S.-supported invasion, a crushing economic embargo, the collapse of the Soviet Union and any number of external and internal catastrophes could not: the removal of Fidel Castro from direct control over the people of Cuba. Suffering from failing health, Castro has final
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After Sunset: P.T. Anderson’s ‘There Will Be Blood’
There Will Be Blood opens in 1897, 15 years earlier than its literary source, Upton Sinclair’s Oil! The shift is significant. In 1890 the Census Bureau declared that the American frontier had been closed and the expansion of the United States from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific had been com
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'Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church,' reviewed
Citizens of Sickness
The journalist and former television news producer Richard M Cohen knows firsthand the toll of chronic illness He described his battle with multiple sclerosis and colon cancer in Blindsided Living a Life Above Illness a chronicle of courage and survival In his new book Strong at the Broken Pl
A Techies World of Faith
As both an astronomer and a Jesuit Guy Consolmagno is well situated and qualified to comment on places where faith and science interact He does not explain the title of his latest book God 8217 s Mechanics anywhere in the text but clearly implies that scientists and engineers study figure out
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A Community in Suffering
During Holy Week we focus on the sufferings of Jesus—not only the physical sufferings that led to his death on the cross but also the misunderstanding and treachery displayed toward him by many who had been close to him.
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Amnesty?: ‘Let us be viligant and charitable.’
Let’s call her María. She was illegally brought into the United States at the age of 2. Now 27, she is a vital member of her parish and has three young children. María was recently deported to Ciudad Juárez, where, in the last 15 years, 600 young women have been kidnapped, raped
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The Vatican on sainthood, a fragile peace in Kosovo
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A Community in Suffering
During Holy Week we focus on the sufferings of Jesus—not only the physical sufferings that led to his death on the cross but also the misunderstanding and treachery displayed toward him by many who had been close to him.
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Pope Meets With Jesuit Delegates Pope Benedict XVI asked the Jesuits to continue to be pioneers in dialogue, theological research and work for justice, but insisted that they also must make clear their faith and their acceptance of the teachings of the Catholic Church. “The church needs you,
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