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The Good Word
Religion both inspires our confidence in human intelligence and, in suggesting what might even exceed it, calls it to account.
News
Supporters of Scottish independence did not see the result they were hoping for but it is fair to say that democracy won in a national referendum that included 85 percent of Scotland rsquo s eligible voters At eight minutes past six on Friday morning Sept 19 ldquo No rdquo crossed the line T
In All Things
Americans looking for a signal as to the kind of men Pope Francis hopes to put in leadership in dioceses like Chicago might turn their attention to Sydney where Bishop Anthony Fisher O P 54 was just announced as the next archbishop of Australia rsquo s only cardinalatial seat nbsp Bishop Fishe
The Ignatian Educator
How can educators adapt to new trends without sacrificing what shouldn't change?
News
Both sides fire over Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.
News
Today's bishops must be as vigilant and courageous as sentinels keeping watch over the faith, and as forgiving and patient as Moses, leading a sinning people across harsh deserts to God, Pope Francis said.Their vocation is not to be wardens of a failed estate, "but custodians of 'Evange
News
Bishops urge compliance with Hyde Amendment
News
The Vice President joins Network at Iowa kickoff of 'Nuns on the Bus' tour
News
I was born in Scotland in 1960 to an Irish mother and Scottish father all four of my grandparents were Irish Growing up in Scotland I never felt uncomfortable having quot dual nationality quot Indeed I am now the proud owner of two passports one British and one Irish Both of these documents m
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Foreign crises are complicating the Democratic Party’s plans to win the midterms.
The Ignatian Educator
In the course of discussing the call of God in particular the journey of Moses a student once told me quot God doesn 39 t choose the prepared He prepares the chosen quot I 39 m not sure where she heard that line it was not original to her but her comments have always struck me as a wonder
In All Things
Mark P Shea is a Washington-based Catholic writer blogger and speaker Raised as an agnostic pagan he became a non-denominational Protestant Evangelical in 1979 before converting to Catholicism in 1987 In addition to a number of books and regular articles in Catholic periodicals Mr Shea is au
FaithThe Word
In biblical poetry a vineyard often represents the beloved. The prophet Isaiah begins to “sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard,” a song in which God’s affectionate care of Israel is recounted. The love song quickly becomes a lover’s lament, though, as Isaiah tells how the vineyard was prepared with tenderness, but since it produced “wild grapes,” it will now be abandoned.
Books
'Redeemer: the Life of Jimmy Carter,' by Randall Balmer, and 'A Call to Action,' by Jimmy Carter
Books
'The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs,' by Emma Anderson
Signs Of the Times
President Obama’s decision to delay executive measures on immigration until after the November elections drew sharp rebukes from some of the most vocal advocates for immigrants, while others continued to urge specific actions toward reform and analysts weighed whether the delay hurts or helps
In The Edge of Sadness, the elegiac successor to his wildly successful novel The Last Hurrah, Edwin O’Connor places these words about the priesthood and lay clericalism in the mouth of the story’s priest-narrator: “Probably in no other walk of life is a young man so often and so hu
Signs Of the Times
At least 124,000 migrants entered Italy in the first eight months of this year, more than twice the 60,000 who arrived in all of 2013. The vast majority landed first in Sicily. Seeing to the new arrivals’ immediate needs in Sicily’s multiple port cities is now a joint effort between chur
Signs Of the Times
Authorities plan to promulgate an official version of Chinese Christian theology.