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The Good Word
Terrance Klein
What is at stake in Mary’s flesh plays out in the world, though with a different result.
Laborers install cross in Seoul, South Korea, for Pope Francis' visit. (CNS photo/ Kim Hong-Ji, Reuters)
In All Things
Gerard O’Connell
On his first visit to Asia as pope Francis is going to South Korea He left the Rome airport at four o rsquo clock in the afternoon local time today August 13 on board an Alitalia flight His main reason for visiting Korea is to participate in the sixth Asian Youth Day that is being held in Daej
High school volunteers from St. Mary of the Hills Church in Rochester Hills, Mich., clean trash and debris from an alley in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood. (CNS photo/Jim West)
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
On The Ignatian Educator, some parental habits worth breaking.
In All Things
Gerard O’Connell
An interview with Archbishop Patrick D’Rozario, of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Robin Williams at "Stand Up for Heroes," a comedy and music benefit for injured U.S. servicemen. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
In All Things
Jim McDermott
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
A pregnant woman touches her stomach at her home in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (CNS photo/Reuters)
In All Things
Sidney Callahan
Language reveals traces of our culture’s ambivalence toward women’s procreative powers.
Kurdish "peshmerga" troops stand guard against Islamic State militants in Iraq. (CNS photo/Reuters)
News
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Church teaches duty to intervene—with force, if necessary—to prevent genocide.
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Professors call for the United States to increase its military and humanitarian assistance.
Of Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
Honoring Cardinal Ortega’s 50 years at the dangerous intersection of church and Cuban politics
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
In his homily on August 6 to a group of altar servers from Germany Pope Francis addressed the distractions of the social media age Our life is made up of time and time is a gift of God hence it must be used in good and fruitful actions Perhaps many youngsters and young people waste too many hour
News
Kevin Clarke
The rapid collapse of Qaraqosh, Iraq's largest Christian city, was a surprise to many.
A metalworking student uses a lathe at a Fe y Alegria training center in San Salvador. The Jesuit educational organization uses training to improve the lives of young men and that might otherwise emigrate.
News
David Agren - Catholic News Service
The Jesuit-run program Fe y Alegria offers alternatives to gangs and emigration.
News
Catholic News Service
'Padre Tono' says he is victim of political persecution
Rembrandt, "The Return of the Prodigal Son." Courtesy of Wikipedia.
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
At the website The Catholic Thing Daniel McInerny offers an eloquent defense of the arts very timely for the upcoming academic year and a nice resource for art teachers who -- not unlike theology teachers -- must defend their subject from those who deem it unnecessary In his brief essay quot A Ca
Hundreds of Iraqi Christians marched to the United Nations office in Irbil on July 24, calling for help for families who fled in the face of threats by Islamic State militants.
News
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope asks for international action to help Iraq's Christians
Father John Zuhlsdorf. (Photo Provided)
In All Things
Sean Salai
Father John Zuhlsdorf quot Father Z quot is an American-born priest of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Velletri-Segni in Italy and a Catholic media figure A convert from Lutheranism in college he was ordained by Saint John Paul II in 1991 nbsp He worked in Rome as a collaborator in the Pontific
In All Things
Nicholas D. Sawicki
Archbishop Sir David Moxon KNZM the Archbishop of Canterbury rsquo s Personal Representative to the Holy See was formerly the Bishop of Waikato Senior Bishop of the New Zealand Diocese and the Anglican Archbishop and Primate of the Church in Aotearna New Zealand and Polynesia nbsp A native of
La Cova (Manresa), where Ignatius spent time praying and writing
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Many people know Manresa Spain as the place where Ignatius spent about a year in solitude and in prayer It was a time post-conversion of coming to terms with his conscience and gaining his spiritual bearings It was at Manresa where Ignatius put together the early notes for the Spiritual Exercis
The Word
John W. Martens
Much modern talk about God tends to reduce the creator to a living doll who wants to give us a divine cuddle There is no doubt that the essence of God rsquo s being is love but the experience of that love and of God rsquo s being is not always an experience of comfort and ease God can disturb th
The Word
John W. Martens
One of the most shocking but welcome aspects of the Bible is how often power is challenged It occurs so often in the biblical tradition that we might take it for granted but the practice of saying uncomfortable things to those who have authority to speak from a position of weakness to those who