Why we need a church that is poor and for the poor
Why we need a church that is poor and for the poor
Living for the city: spiritual exercises from Detroit
Detroit, like many large cities, has an overabundance of burned out buildings and homes, overgrown vacant lots and desolate landscapes. In the midst of these sad sights, however, it is possible to locate suppleness and beauty.
A Tale of Two Countries: Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba and the U.S.
A Cuban-American reflects on the pope’s journey to ‘nuestra America’.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Iraqi sister testifies before Foreign Affairs Committee on plight of Middle East Christians
Letters
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Taste, See, TouchTears came to my eyes on reading “Making Room for All at Mass,” by Judith Valente (8/17). I attempted teaching 12 young men with multiple handicaps at a state institution in Lincoln, Ill. I don’t know what they learned, but they responded best to touch, taste, smel
Editorials
Responding to the refugee crisis
International news in recent months has brought a steady stream of stories about migrants and refugees—their struggles to reach safety in Europe and their struggles after they get there. They leave their homes out of fear for their lives or at least in the hope of providing a future for their
Faith in Focus
Life between Catholic and Episcopal churches
Living in a family divided by the Tiber
Books
A Poetry of Conflict
‘Music at Midnight,’ by John Drury
China’s Children
‘Frog,’ by Mo Yan
A False Choice
‘Beyond the Abortion Wars,’ by Charles C. Camosy
Theater
Corrective Action: Profiling the lives of men in prison
Profiling the lives of men in prison
The Word
Gospel: How to deal with challenging scripture passages
“Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!” (Nm 11:29)
Columns
Having the God Talk
What am I to do to introduce my kids to Jesus Christ?
Current Comment
Current Comment
Statement of regret is cause for tentative hope in autocratic and nuclear-armed North Korea.
Philosopher's Notebook
‘Tired of Living’
The euthanasia juggernaut has become a campaign to eliminate the disabled.
Signs Of the Times
Death toll rises as refugee crisis erupts on outskirts of Europe
What has been described as the worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II reached a crescendo in early September as thousands of people fleeing Syria, Iraq and other Middle Eastern calamity zones piled up against hastily erected barricades on the outskirts of Europe. But European sentiment,
Broadened Absolution
Pope Francis’ announcement on Sept. 1 that priests worldwide will be able to absolve women for the sin of abortion will have little effect on pastoral practices in the United States and Canada. “It is my understanding that the faculty [authorization] for the priest to lift the latae sent
News Briefs
The Michigan Catholic Conference sent letters to more than 10,000 employees in late August warning them about possible identity theft after a cyber attack on an employee database. • Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria, joined the members of the #BringBackOurGirls movement on Au
Work and the Dignity of Families
Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami cited the importance of work in supporting families in the U.S. bishops’ 2015 Labor Day statement, which drew on Pope Francis’ June encyclical on ecology, “Laudato Si’.” Archbishop Wenski said ,“We must not resign ourselves to
The human face of migration
The Calais migrants emerge as real people, some of whom even go to church.
At Peace With the ‘Nontraditional’
The four major themes of Pope Francis’ visit to the United States—social and economic justice, environmental stewardship, immigration and the value of the traditional family—will resonate with many U.S. Catholics, but not all. That’s according to a new survey by Pew
The Living Word
Scripture and Our Selves: Reflections on the Bible and the body
The divine affirmation of flesh invests the body with honor, exuberance and grace.
Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis brings radical Gospel message to the US
This week-long journey takes him first to Cuba and then to the United States and is widely considered “the big one” of the year.
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