Confessions of a Modern Nun: The Vatican visitation prompts reflection on a religious divide.
The Vatican visitation prompts reflection on a religious divide.
When Silence Is Betrayal: A call for justice for the people of Gaza
A call for justice for the people of Gaza
Power Vacuum?: Canon law and the continuity of papal leadership
Canon law and the continuity of papal leadership
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Reflections on a transatlantic friendship
Letters
Letters
Enough Grinning and Groping One reason people sit apart during Mass (Current Comment, 9/28) is to avoid being frowned at for not holding hands and raising them during the Our Father, as if this empty pretense of community could somehow make up for the absence of a shared, vital attention to Christ&r
Editorials
In the Service of Peace
The church in Africa is experiencing the fastest growth in the history of Christianity.
Books
Papal Review
An introduction to Pope Benedict's theological vision
The Making of a Global Icon
As a French poet once said, Mary is the sea that no one exhausts.
The Making of a Global Icon Mother of God A History of the Virgin Mary
“Sally Cunneen By Miri Rubin Yale Univ. Press. 560p $35 9780300105001 As a 13th-century French poet once said, Mary is “the sea that no one exhausts.” Yet the remarkable cultural history that the medieval historian Miri Rubin has assembled from worldwide resources seems to challenge that
Music
Neverland Awaits: Is Michael Jackson our future?
Was Michael Jackson our once and future king? Did his life chart the course of our own?
New Media
Generation Text: The dark digital ages: 13-17
For adolescenets, iPods and smart phones are more than just consumer goods. They are signs and instruments of status.
A Digital Defense
Technology does not make people smarter, but it can help them to connect to a cause in which they believe.
Poetry
The Authority of the Ordained
The authority of the ordained—a cardinal’s
The Word
The Throne of Grace
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Oct. 18, 2009
Columns
Proofreading the Pope
George Weigel thinks that some liberal virus has infected the pope's encyclical.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Oprah and Uwem; Dialogue with the Stars
Signs Of the Times
Synod to Address Ethnic and Religious Divisions
The second Synod of Bishops for Africa will spotlight the “forgotten wars” that are no longer on the media radar but cause daily suffering.
Bishop Meets With Ousted President
Days after the deposed leader of Honduras returned to his country, church leaders met with both parties involved in the political standoff.
Pope Visits Czech Republic
Pope Benedict XVI urged audiences to rediscover the spiritual and moral values that sustained their struggle for freedom from Communist rule.
Catholic Students Resist Dress Code
Christian girls in the Gaza Strip are under pressure to wear Islamic dress in public schools.
Sierra Leone Struggles After Civil War
Many people who fled the country during the war have returned, although they struggle to survive amid a shattered economy.
News Briefs
Carl A. Anderson, the supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, has been named by Pope Benedict XVI to a council that supervises the Vatican bank.
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