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Signs Of the Times
As South Africans prepared for the memorial service for Nelson Mandela on Dec. 10, tributes from around the world poured in, acclaiming a man who steered South Africa away from certain conflict and through a slow, sometimes painful process of reconciliation—one that is in many ways ongoing.Des
Art
Well before globalization and technology unified the world, trade in textiles wove it both practically and sumptuously together.
Signs Of the Times
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, president of the USCCB, calls lawsuit “misguided” and “baseless."
FaithThe Good Word
Why the Grinch hated Christmas and what Dr. Seuss teach us about the nature of sin.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Solutions to long-term unemployment do not seem to be on the agenda for 2014.
The Ignatian Educator
Steve Jobs ended his 2005 Stanford commencement speech by urging his audience quot Stay hungry Stay foolish quot For Jobs remaining hungry and foolish was the path to authenticity It was the way to live a life that in his words didn 39 t rely on the results of another 39 s thinking nbsp
The Word
lsquo Hey want to hear the most annoying sound in the world rdquo That is Jim Carrey rsquo s character Lloyd speaking in the 1994 comedy ldquo Dumb and Dumber rdquo He goes on to demonstrate the world rsquo s most annoying sound Some people might find a lowbrow comedy like this as a whole
The Word
When you rsquo re lost it rsquo s good to be missed it rsquo s even better to be found At the heart of spiritual lostness though is our collusion in our own absence People are not inanimate objects like coins things that can fall unwittingly into corners nor are they like sheep animals with
The Word
Most readers of this column have been in a position of authority at some time I rsquo m sure and some of us this writer included enjoy a constancy of authority because of education ordination position or wealth Though we might not speak of it often even quietly to ourselves it is a delight
The Word
The common understanding of the relationship between Onesimus and Philemon in Paul rsquo s letter to Philemon is that Onesimus was a slave of Philemon Though it remains a debated issue Onesimus had either run away from Philemon or had been sent by him to render service to Paul while he was impriso
The Good Word
John W. Martens asks readers for essential Bible passages for Christian-Muslim dialogue.
Books
This new literary biography mdash rdquo not a formal biography but more than a work of literary criticism rdquo in the words of its author Robert Milder professor of English at Washington University in St Louis mdash contends that Nathaniel Hawthorne was a man divided be-tween his realist perc
Books
'Were the Popes Against the Jews?" and other books on the Nazi persecutions
Books
Blacks and Hispanics make up almost 60 percent of the prison population.
Books
John Burt analyzes in detail the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.
Books
When things go wrong in Latin America, the tendency is to write new laws or a new constitution.
Books
A new biography of Raïssa Maritain, a key leader of the 'renouveau catholique'
Arts & CultureBooks
For 100 years, the Catholic Church played a key role in San Francisco politics and culture.