Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options

Politics & Society
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
The AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs is gathering information to "outline the current landscape" on physician-assisted suicide.
Gianni Crea, chief key keeper at the Vatican, in the Sistine Chapel with the bunch of keys he uses to access all rooms in the museum, on Oct. 6, 2016. Photograph by Chris Warde-Jones
FaithDispatches
Josephine McKenna - Religion News Service
The key keepers are just some of the more than 3,000 lay people who perform unheralded jobs in a place that is known for pomp and circumstance.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
The United Nations reports that more than 50 percent of the world’s 21.3 million refugees are children.
Books
Tom Deignan
Either way, if Trump’s candidacy is a problem, pundits on the right and left have thought of it specifically as a “white trash” problem.
Arts & CultureBooks
Michael V. Tueth, S.J.
Viertel tells many backstage stories about how the directors and composers managed to avoid a disaster, sometimes only a few hours ahead of opening night.
Arts & CultureBooks
John J. Conley, S.J.
Reno’s portrait of contemporary American society is bold and grim.
FaithThe Word
John W. Martens
“For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost” (Lk 19:10)
(iStock photo)
MagazineLetters
Our readers
“The problems with the Catholic press—and they are real—will not be served by circling the wagons.”
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
Kevin Clarke
The death toll in Haiti had exceeded 370.
Pope Francis meets Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, England, spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, at the Vatican Oct. 6. (CNS photo/Tony Gentile, Reuters)
FaithSigns Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
Pope Francis and the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, together charged 19 pairs of Catholic and Anglican bishops to return to their home countries and work together to promote joint prayer, joint proclamation of the Gospel and especially joint works of charity and justice.
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
That is, if the promise of the New Testament is to be true that we might transcend our thorniest divisions.
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
Pope Francis made a surprise visit on Oct. 4 to the town of Amatrice in Italy, recently devastated by an earthquake, and told survivors there: “From the first moment” of the tremblor on Aug. 24, “I felt the need to be here.”
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
Kevin Clarke
The Russian countermeasures on proliferation followed quickly on the heels of a U.S. decision to suspend what had become fruitless negotiations toward a cease-fire in Syria. The setback does not bode well for near-term progress on U.S.-Russia disarmament, an effort that has been stalled for years af
FaithFaith in Focus
James Martin, S.J.
For me, wisdom comes mainly in the form of insights.
Politics & SocietyOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
The choice of a Catholic education for our children today is the right choice at the right time, not merely for its material benefits, but for the progress of souls.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York presides at an August Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York said on Oct. 6 that it has created a compensation program for people who were sexually abused by priests or deacons.
Lorena (not her real name) has lived at Casa Alianza for three year. A photo of her face cannot be published for security reasons.
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Ashley McKinless
Lorena was 12 years old when her mother went to Spain in search of work. A week later, she began taking cocaine.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“She did a big number on Catholics, a horrible number on Catholics...through her people,” Mr. Trump said.
Books
Terrence W. Tilley
Sometimes a bit controversial, but always balanced, Rausch regularly gets to the heart of the matter in each topic he considers.