

Raised on Faith: My adult children are kind, smart and justice-oriented. But they are not practicing Catholics.
My adult children are kind, smart and justice-oriented. But they are not practicing Catholics.
Just Parenting: Raising children in the Christian Family Movement
Raising children in the Christian Family Movement
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
My wife and I were deeply gratified by the adoption process, which we found to be profoundly pro-life.
Letters
Letters
Let It Rock! Thank you for Kerry Weber’s article on Christian Rock, “Show a Little Faith” (9/26). Last August I was celebrating Mass at an out-of-town church. I was ambivalent about its Christian Rock choir. I understood its roots in the folk Masses of the 1970s, amped up with adde
Editorials
Let Others Lead
The U.S. government no longer serves as the world’s negotiator in chief.
Faith in Focus
A Mother’s Blessing
Many of the moments of motherhood are hard to survive, let alone treasure.
Books
Ritual and Myth
Robert Bellah has shaped the way in which we think of the roles of religion in modern society.
Beatifications
Angela ODonnells new collection of poems is a lives of the saintsof a sort.
The Scientific Mysteries
A fresh and dynamic integration of the Catholic tradition and the amazing insights of science.
Art
A Family Man: The pastel portraits of Stanislaw Wyspianski
The Polish artist Stanislaw Wyspianski was grounded in the private, personal world of family.
The Word
Love Says It All
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), Oct. 23, 2011
Columns
The Unkindest Cuts
Budget deals that favor spending cuts add to the problem.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Promise of the Sea; Making the Grade; Fiscal Follies
Signs Of the Times
‘Faithful Citizenship’ Reissued Without Major Changes
The statement does include a new introduction warning that the document “has at times been misused to present an incomplete or distorted view of the demands of faith in politics.”
Multicultural Society Creates a New Reality
France’s Catholic bishops have urged citizens to accept the fact that their country is no longer culturally homogeneous.
New Deportation Policy Endorsed
Archbishop José H. Gómez applauded the recent government announcement that prosecutorial discretion would be exercised on “low-priority” deportation cases.
Broader Exemption Demanded
Eighteen Catholic colleges asked the Obama administration to broaden the religious exemption offered within new guidelines on women’s health.
Elections in Egypt
Commenting on elections planned for Nov. 28, the Coptic bishop of Luxor said that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood were among the most organized political groups.
News Briefs
Somali children are the victims most affected by the food crisis in the Horn of Africa.






