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Of Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
Who is the “our” in “we are going to take our country back?”
Signs Of the Times
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Belgium is embroiled in a religious freedom controversy after the new head of the country’s Roman Catholic Church demanded that church-run hospitals and nursing homes have the right to refuse to euthanize their patients. Euthanasia for terminally ill adults was legalized in Belgium in 2002 and
Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis is convinced that America can make an important contribution to the resolution of many of the world’s problems through an interreligious dialogue that involves not just words, but also actions.
Signs Of the Times
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 12 said the state of Florida’s death penalty system is unconstitutional because it allows judges, rather than juries, to determine whether a convicted criminal should be given a death sentence. Michael B. Sheedy, executive director of the Florida Conference of Ca
Philosopher's Notebook
John J. Conley, S.J.
The annual convention of the American Philosophical Association could rarely be described as a festive affair. Thousands of anxious philosophy professors descend on a hotel to give papers on obscure topics as graduate students grimly run the gantlet of hiring committees in a windowless ballroom tryi
Faith in Focus
Saadia Ahmad
We are able to borrow traditions from other religions without compromising our own. This insight defined my interfaith journey as a Muslim at a Catholic college.
Columns
James T. Keane
From the moment Daniel Berrigan took the stage at Cornell University on April 17, 1970, he and everyone else there knew he would be arrested.
Signs Of the Times
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With North Korea leading the way and Islamic extremism rapidly expanding, 2015 was the “worst year in modern history for Christian persecution,” according to Open Doors’ 2016 World Watch List, a ranking of the 50 most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian. Iraq was r
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“Return of the Prodigal Son,” by Rembrandt, circa 1668
Peter J. Vaghi
Always ready to greet a prodigal son
Loyola University Chicago (Wikicommons)
Current Comment
The Editors
Last year, undergraduate students at Loyola University Chicago voted to raise their own student fees by $2.50 per semester to create a scholarship fund for undocumented immigrant undergraduate students. In December, the university’s board of trustees voted to approve this fund, to be called th
Signs Of the Times
Judith Valente
Archbishop Cupich is calling for a ban on assault weapons, stricter background checks
News
Catholic News Service
"Puerto Rico's debt comes from a combination of mismanagement, bad luck and its unique colonial status as neither a sovereign country nor a U.S. state," wrote Archbishop Roberto Gonzalez Nieves of San Juan.
An Ultra-Orthodox Jew walks past the Dormition Abbey on Mt. Zion in Jerusalem in July. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill)
News
Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
Several anti-Christian slogans in Hebrew were discovered scrawled along the walls of the Benedictine Dormition Abbey monastery and the neighboring Greek Orthodox seminary, both located on Mount Zion next to the walls of the Old City.
In All Things
Sidney Callahan
A throwaway culture of conspicuous consumption and waste ends up throwing away people.
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
Los Angeles archbishop issues statement on the Supreme Court decision to review Obama's immigration order
Pope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis
Pope Francis says God looks beyond appearances and into the heart.
Acts of the Apostles Manuscript
The Good Word
John W. Martens
God is preparing Peter to welcome Gentiles into the community by accepting their food as clean.
News
Catholic News Service
Catholic advocacy agencies quickly joined the pushback after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the beginning of the year arrested immigrants, all Central American families, who were in the United States illegally.After a series of meetings with Homeland Security officials Jan. 11, Senate
News
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
"This visit is important because it gives two important signals: The first signal is continuity," demonstrating that "the route opened by John Paul II and followed by Benedict XVI is now going forward," Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, the chief rabbi of Rome, said. The second signal is a recognition of the importance of mutual respect and dialogue at a time of increasing "violence inspired and sustained by distorted visions of religion."