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(Un)Conventional Wisdom
A closer look at the still-evolving urban libertarians, or liberaltarians
In All Things
DETERMINED TO PURSUE CO-DETERMINATION In an update on a storyline central to Thomas Geoghegan rsquo s recent book Only One Thing Can Save Us see America review here the United Auto Workers union has presented a draft proposal for a German-style works council for Volkswagen rsquo s Chattanooga pl
News
The wailing of sirens called Father Tom Higgins from his parish rectory and Sisters Linda Lukiewski and Julie Sertsch from their convent to the scene of the Amtrak train derailment the evening of May 12.
News
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines has been elected as the new president of Caritas Internationalis at the confederation's 20th General Assembly in Rome. Speaking on the phone, Cardinal Tagle said to delegates from over 130 member organisations from all over the world: "
Dispatches
ldquo I accept this election in the name of all the poor people in the world rdquo nbsp With these words the Filipino cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle accepted his election as the new President of Caritas Internationalis He is the first Asian to head this confederation of Catholic Church charity a
News
Chaldean Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo, Syria, and his people are exhausted.The bishop, who is president of the church's charitable agency, Caritas Syria, left the country for a few days to attend the general assembly of Caritas Internationals in Rome May 12-17.Daily life "is becoming more
News
Pope Francis' concern for those suffering on the margins and for small Catholic communities that have kept the faith alive through war or repression will take him to Bosnia-Herzegovina in early June.By making a one-day trip June 6 to Sarajevo, he said he hoped he could "be an encouragement
News
Speaking quietly and deliberately, Dominican Sister Diana Momeka from Iraq urged a congressional committee hearing May 13 to help the displaced Christian refugees in Iraq to "go back home.""We want nothing more than to go back to our lives; we want nothing more than to go home,"
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Incident left at least six people dead and injured more than 200 others.
In All Things
The pope has heard the Palestinian cry, “Let my people go.”
The Good Word
As he saw it he didn rsquo t just make it He was history ldquo I am the revolution rdquo That was the explanation Napoleon Bonaparte offered in 1804 when he announced that he would be crowned Emperor of the young French republic As Bonaparte saw it stability would never come to France as lo
The Ignatian Educator
Pope Benedict XVI has often sympathized with those at different places on the journey of faith including those who struggle to believe in God or don 39 t believe at all nbsp Two examples come to mind In his outstanding Introduction to Christianity then-Fr Ratzinger wrote powerfully of the forc
News
Vatican and Palestinian representatives have finalized the text of a formal agreement recognizing freedom of religion in the "State of Palestine" and outlining the rights and obligations of the Catholic Church, its agencies and its personnel in the territory.Without fanfare, the Vatican ha
A scathing new report on the conditions under which immigrants are detained concludes with the U.S. bishops' recommendation that the current system be dismantled and replaced with less drastic approaches for keeping track of people whose immigration cases are pending.Drawing on international law
News
President Barack Obama, a late addition to a Catholic-evangelical summit at Georgetown University on overcoming poverty, said events like those in Ferguson, Missouri, and in Baltimore demonstrate a need to "refocus attention on poverty."Obama, speaking May 12, said, "We have been stuc
The Word
God chose the Israelites to be his people his nation his children And so they are his children a family established through the covenant God ratified with Abraham At the heart of the covenant was the understanding that Israel ldquo would acknowledge that the Lord is God rdquo and that they wo
The Word
Sometimes I find myself in a line-up with a bunch of strangers shuffling down the aisle in church and I forget that I am standing with my family on the pathway to heaven about to partake of the body and blood of Christ offered once for all time for the salvation of the world Perhaps you have walk
Books
Two new books take very different pathways in telling the story of St. Francis.