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Megan K. McCabe
Pornography harms the common good by leading others to sin and damaging the community.
Current Comment
The Editors
Members tire of “a part-time Congress,” where fundraising has a higher priority than legislating
Of Other Things
Olga Segura
All these women are, even if only for a moment on canvas, just like us.
Signs Of the Times
Kevin Clarke
In Flint, Mich., jobs have been scarce for years, but crime and foreclosures have been on the rise. Domestic violence and depression are household scourges, and a steady population decline has made the running of the city and even its long-term viability increasingly tenuous. As if these and many mo
Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Cardinal Zen does not trust the Chinese Communist administration.
Columns
Nathan Schneider
We need to lose our tolerance for usury again.
Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
Use the power of communication to build bridges and heal wounds, not generate hatred or misunderstanding, Pope Francis said in his message for World Communications Day on Jan. 22. The Catholic Church must proclaim the truth and denounce injustice without alienating everyone in need of God’s he
A worker of the Salvadoran Ministry of Health fumigates a house Jan. 21 near San Salvador. Salvadoran authorities began the fumigation process to reduce the presence of the mosquito that transmits the Zika virus. (CNS photo/Oscar Rivera, EPA)
Current Comment
The Editors
Like the Ebola panic of 2014, Zika reminds the complacent of the affluent world of a kind of enforced solidarity with folks in poorer regions.
“Christ in Front of Pilate,” by Mihály Munkácsy, 1881
Steven P. Millies
Fun fact: In the sixth century, the Coptic Church proclaimed Pontius Pilate a saint and a martyr.
Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
Bishop Oscar Cantú of Las Cruces, N.M., urged Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Advisor Susan Rice to take renewed action to build on steps toward peace in the Middle East in separate letters on Jan 20. Bishop Cantú, who chairs the Committee on International Justice and Peace of
Signs Of the Times
Steven Schwankert
China’s management of its economy has brought out not only bears, but wolves.
Current Comment
The Editors
This research is at the very cutting edge of genetic science, and the technique it leverages has already occasioned both excitement and significant debate.
J. Michael Byron
Wouldn’t there be something odd about a law school within which could be found a subgroup of students undertaking a ‘legal studies’ concentration?
Seventy percent of respondents in a Pew Research poll described Marco Rubio as "very" or "somewhat" religious, compared with 44 percent who said the same of Donald Trump. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
CatholicVote voices horror of Trump
An illustration from "Dispensational Truth or God's Plan and Purpose in the Ages" by Clarence Larkin, courtesy of preservedwords.com
Opinion
Nathan Schneider
One can wait for the climate apocalypse to come, or one can see that it is happening already, especially in the pockets and places far from centers of power, where people live closest to the earth.
Pope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis
The Christian heart is magnanimous. It is open, always. It is not a heart that is closed in on its own selfishness.
Nathan Schneider
Universal basic income is an idea with a lot of potential, but what matters is how such a policy is implemented.
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Joseph McAuley
The seven crew members knew their work was dangerous; yet they were willing to “pull toward the future” on our behalf.
In All Things
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
“Rabin, The Last Day” is convinced that Israel has a conscience and forces it to face its sins.
Demonstrating for 'Yes' in December (Photo: Faculty Forward Chicago)
News
Kevin Clarke
In what may prove to be confirmation of a national trend among part-time or adjunct faculty at U.S. colleges and universities, contingent faculty at Loyola University Chicago voted today to join Local 73 of the Service Employees International Union, becoming the third Chicago group of part-time