Of Many Things
What’s more dangerous than a dictatorship of relativism? A dictatorship of positivism.
The battles being waged in the public square are not so much about whether ultimate truths exist, but which absolute “truths” will govern public affairs.
Letters
The Letters
As a chaplain for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, I find suicide is a pervasive part of my work.
Your Take
What does ethical eating mean to you?
In making decisions about what to eat, respondents to an informal survey told America that the most important factor was their own health.
Editorials
The Editors: A new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey is not a local project.
Mr. Trump campaigned as uniquely qualified to improve the infrastructure of the United States, but he has so far made little discernible progress in this area.
The Syrian people are still suffering. Here’s how Trump could help.
The Trump administration should reconsider its shortsighted and inhuman restrictions on refugee resettlement
50 years after the martyrdom of Martin Luther King Jr., equal rights are still threatened.
It is impossible to ignore the bleak economic and social realities that many African-Americans and members of other racial minority groups still face.
Short Take
Where are the millennial Catholic activists?
Millennials need to acknowledge that our parents’ generation will not be able to lead the way forever.
Dispatches
Infographic: Generation groups and religion
Surveys suggest that younger Americans are turning away from religion, but they may not have been properly introduced to the church in the first place.
In Vermont, the latest clash between public money and the Catholic Church
While the vast majority of Vermont students are eligible for the vouchers, which pay the full cost of up to two college classes, students who attend religious and other private schools are not.
Five years in, Americans’ love of Pope Francis remains strong
According to a new Pew Research Center poll, 84 percent of U.S. Catholics hold a “favorable” view of Pope Francis.
Texas bishops cut ties with Texas Right to Life
The divergence in Texas might be viewed as a microcosm of the national debate over what it means to be pro-life.
Motels and the modern face of homelessness
The film “The Florida Project” depicts a new reality: families who live week to week in motels, unable to afford permanent housing.
Features
Martin Luther King Jr. and the dignity of the Black Lives Matter network
To recognize the specific rights of disadvantaged people is to affirm God’s love for all people.
Who will be the next Billy Graham?
People have been asking this question for decades.
How Billy Graham shaped American Catholicism
Remembering Billy Graham’s relationships with presidents, priests and popes.
Faith in Focus
When my daughter whispered to me, “I wish girls could be priests,” I didn’t know what to say.
Wherever you stand on the matter, it’s clear that the church teaching on ordination represents a problem for evangelization.
Vantage Point
The Legacy of John Paul II
Long before Pope Francis earned the nickname, St. John Paul II was known as “the people’s pope.” St. John Paul II recognized the value of modern travel and mass media in spreading the Gospel and a global message of good will.
Ideas
The Passions of Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan
The Gaffigans have produced comedy specials, best-selling books and five children. They even survived a brain tumor. What have you done lately?
Books
What can we learn from blind Bartimaeus?
We collaborate with God’s grace and find conformity with Christ, by acknowledging our creaturehood, our temptations, our distractions and expectations, our doubts, our grudges, our compulsions, and by allowing “Christ to pray for us, with us, and in us.”
An immigrant story for everyone
The familiarity of the language and the story in Andrew Krivák’s “The Signal Flame” is an homage to how people, be they siblings, friends, sons and fathers, mothers and sons or sons and lovers, communicate with each other, by word or gesture.
The unknown role of Christian women in the early church
With Crispina and Her Sisters, Christine Schenk, C.S.J., has performed a singular service in making accessible additional sources about early Christian women.
Why the Catholic Church can (and does) change
Review of Ross Douthat’s latest book, “To Change the Church.” While the church always strives to honor what Jesus said about divorce and remarriage, it has made pastoral accommodations since its earliest days.
Television
Getting Catholicism, the Troubles and 90s nostalgia right in ‘Derry Girls’
The coming-of-age sitcom follows a group of girls as they navigate their way through Catholic high school during the Troubles.
Getting Latino life—and religion—right on ‘One Day at a Time’
“One Day at a Time,” which follows a Cuban-American family in Los Angeles, was inspired by Gloria Calderón Kellet’s own life.
Poetry
James’s Book
A boy at a front door, a shadowy guest.
The Word
How can we become free to forgive?
Asking for forgiveness is essential to the Christian life; calling others to do the same is crucial to evangelization.
Sent to Show Mercy
The world must see in us the same merciful Christ who appeared to the apostles.
Last Take
Sorry, Mr. Trudeau. We won’t ‘just check the box.’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his advisors are misreading the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is supposed to protect citizens from being intimidated by the government. It is not intended to intimidate citizens.
Faith
How can we become free to forgive?
Asking for forgiveness is essential to the Christian life; calling others to do the same is crucial to evangelization.
Sent to Show Mercy
The world must see in us the same merciful Christ who appeared to the apostles.
Infographic: Generation groups and religion
Surveys suggest that younger Americans are turning away from religion, but they may not have been properly introduced to the church in the first place.
When my daughter whispered to me, “I wish girls could be priests,” I didn’t know what to say.
Wherever you stand on the matter, it’s clear that the church teaching on ordination represents a problem for evangelization.
Five years in, Americans’ love of Pope Francis remains strong
According to a new Pew Research Center poll, 84 percent of U.S. Catholics hold a “favorable” view of Pope Francis.
Who will be the next Billy Graham?
People have been asking this question for decades.
Magazine
The Letters
As a chaplain for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, I find suicide is a pervasive part of my work.
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Culture
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