Three Days in Cuba: The people are industrious and poised for change.
Psychologists and social scientists tell us that first impressions are very important and that we begin to form them quickly, perhaps as fast as five seconds after we first meet someone.
Late last March, I met Cuba.
My three days in the island nation—partly to be present for Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic visit and partly…
Hidden Wounds: Healing after a soldier’s homecoming
Healing after a soldier’s homecoming
The Ethical Executive: The Vatican’s strategic plan for the business community
The Vatican’s strategic plan for the business community
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Uri Mor worked tirelessly on behalf of Christians, often at cost to himself.
Letters
Letters
Anti-Evangelization Thank you for the April 30 issue, with “Why They Left,” by William J. Byron, S.J., and Charles Zech, and “The Convert’s Tale,” by the Rev. John Jay Hughes. I found them relevant, refreshing, insightful and hopeful. Despite being a religion teacher at
Editorials
Budgeting for Lives
Why are leaders in the developed world poised to sabotage decades of progress against global poverty?
Books
Unorthodoxy
Ross Douthat has written a learned yet highly readable analysis of the changing role of religion in American history.
Faith in the Future
Tom Roberts of NCR chronicles the failure to carry out the changes prescribed by Vatican II.
On the High Road
“Places of Faith: A Road Trip Across America's Religious Landscape”
Film
Heaven Can Wait: The sad silliness of ‘The Five Year Engagement’
The sad silliness of ‘The Five Year Engagement’
Theater
Unquiet Desperation: Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’
Mike Nichols’ production of ‘Death of a Salesman’ breathes and barks like a freshly born thing.
Poetry
His Empty Hand
Or here’s a story. A man just back from elsewhere tells it to me.
The Word
The Spirit’s Gift
Pentecost should overwhelm us as profoundly as it overwhelmed the disciples Let rsquo s start with them and move to us The disciples gathered on the Jewish feast of Pentecost the commemoration of the gift of God rsquo s law on Sinai Recall how powerfully God was experienced in the Exodus guidin
Columns
Tokens of Love and Loss
However lost we may feel, we are created to be found.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Conviction, Not Recompense; Hopefully, This Too Shall Pass; Publish and Perish?
Signs Of the Times
Administration Official Calls Drone Warfare ‘Ethical’ and ‘Wise’
John Brennan’s presentation was intended to pull back the curtains on the administration’s drone policy.
Churches Target Big Banks With Divestment and Activism
Hundreds of faith-based and grass-roots organizations are working alongside the Occupy Wall Street movement.
New Caritas Oversight
A Vatican decree on May 2 established new norms for Caritas Internationalis, giving Vatican offices greater authority over the work of the umbrella group of 162 Catholic aid agencies around the world.
Nigeria ‘Powerless’
The archbishop of Jos said he could not understand why the government appeared powerless to prevent deadly attacks on Christians.
Al Qaeda: Catholics ‘Fertile Ground’
An American spokesperson for Al Qaeda said that because of church scandals Catholics were ‘fertile ground’ for conversion.
News Briefs
Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago on April 25 presided over the burial of some of the 120 fetuses stored at a medical examiner’s office.
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