Cardinal Christoph Schönborn on the demands and joys of love
The Bible itself presents family life not as an abstract ideal but as what the Holy Father calls a “work of craftsmanship.”
Of Many Things
What my disability developed later in life taught me
What my disability developed later in life taught me
Letters
Reply All: America’s readers respond
Union in Communion“Longing for Communion,” by Timothy P. O’Malley (7/18), presents the concrete situation confronted by many Catholic-Lutheran partners today in the United States. The starting point for a pastoral approach to these couples ought to be the union, however imperfect,
Editorials
Social justice includes being pro-life: Why Tim Kaine should defend the Hyde Amendment
What is at stake is a significant increase in the already distressingly high number of abortions.
Features
How to make room in your parish for people with disabilities
It is likely that “you don’t see them because they don’t come.”
Faith in Focus
Sports and Morality: When Death comes to the JV basketball star
Maybe that’s the subconscious appeal of sports: how we might tempt death through a game.
Confessions of a guitar-Mass Catholic
“I found God’s grace in artists like Bob Dylan and the Beatles.”
Books
Talk Therapy
‘At the Existentialist Café,’ by Sarah Bakewell
A World Embrace
“Joan Chittister,” by Tom Roberts; “Two Dogs and a Parrot,” by Joan Chittister
New Readings of Old Art
“The World’s Oldest Church,” by Michael Peppard
Film
“The Innocents”: suffering and survival in a Polish convent
Among one group of nuns at the end of World War II, the shadow of the cross is impossible to escape.
Poetry
Homing
Home water, why?Cold sunlight, new heavenstrikes the shallows of white,wavering tissue, new earth.They are here,gaining the still pool,a million salmon bones.Soul flood. Head down.Study this hieroglyph, stunned. Metal-skinned swimmerscrash from the hurtling channelto this blinding delta,where m
The Word
Gospel: The Narrow Path
Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?”
Gospel: Persons of Honor
“For great is the might of the Lord; but by the humble he is glorified.”
Columns
Why are Catholics so good at creating co-ops?
Business, too, is a kind of formation, for better or worse.
Current Comment
Ready for brain chip implants? How the church can answer the moral questions raised by new tech
If you think these artificial modifications to the human person sound worrying, you are not alone.
Turns out, most people on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are against a wall
Seventy-two percent of U.S. residents and 85 percent of Mexico’s residents oppose the construction of a wall along the border.
Will Colorado decide to go for single-payer healthcare this fall?
For decades the idea of a single-payer health care system for all has been by turns glorified and vilified.
Faith
Confessions of a guitar-Mass Catholic
“I found God’s grace in artists like Bob Dylan and the Beatles.”
How to make room in your parish for people with disabilities
It is likely that “you don’t see them because they don’t come.”
First Monday
Terrorism does not justify suspending the First Amendment
There is danger in government-imposed silence.
Of Other Things
The everyday Olympics of Christian discipleship
All the baptized, whatever their particular state of life, are nevertheless running the same course of Christian discipleship.
Signs Of the Times
News Briefs
“It’s not true, it’s not right, it’s not just to say that Islam is terrorist,” Pope Francis said on the plane from Krakow to Rome on July 31. • On July 25, the leader of Egypt’s Coptic Christian Church warned of increased attacks on Christians—37 sectar
Muslim-Christian Solidarity in France
Muslims and Catholics joined in Friday prayers at the mosque in the Normandy town where an elderly priest was slain on July 26. The killing of 85-year-old Rev. Jacques Hamel as he celebrated morning Mass sent shockwaves around France and deeply touched many among the nation’s five million Musl
L.G.B.T. on Campus
A small independent Catholic college in Escondido, Calif., has joined the opponents of a state law that would ban discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students by depriving colleges of state and federal student-aid funds. The president of John Paul the Great University, Derr
Middle East Modernity
In a new document, Jesuits involved in the Middle East call on the international community to take on a “sense of responsibility” for conflicts in the region and to abandon “the Machiavellian behaviors, passive attitudes and ideological battles” that for too long have stood i
A performing arts festivals speaks some uncomfortable truths about contemporary South Africa
Grahamstown, the small university city that hosts South Africa’s annual National Festival of the Arts each year, is historically a frontier town—the meeting place in the 19th century between the British Empire and the Xhosa nation, before the latter was annexed, creating the present-day
Faith Remains a Motivating Factor For V.P. Picks Pence and Kaine
With the close of both the Republican and Democratic conventions, the faith of both vice presidential candidates has been thrown into the spotlight.Late last year, a very public dispute between Catholic Charities agencies in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and Indiana’s governor, Mike Pence, o
World Youth Day Concludes With Message of Courage and Hope
Pope Francis bade farewell on July 31 to an estimated 1.6 million young people from 187 countries in Krakow, Poland, for World Youth Day. In his homily at the festival Mass, he challenged them “to have the courage to be more powerful than evil by loving everyone, even our enemies.”Franci
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