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Editorials
Diplomacy and Disarmament
The Editors
The Obama administration should not participate in an Israeli military strike against Iran.
Signs Of the Times
Anti-Christian Attack Deplored
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

The attack at the Abbey of Latroun was condemned by the U.S. State Department, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and average Israelis.

Letters
Letters
Realpolitik at Play In “R2P May Still Work” (Editorial, 8/27), the editors called for “outside mediation between factions” in Syria. Yes, by all means get these people who are engaged in desperate combat around a table for leisurely discussions. Perhaps a “discernment&r
Signs Of the Times
Stop Global Warming
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

The Franciscan Action Network called on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney “to acknowledge that climate change is an extremely critical ecological and moral issue

Were Medieval Universities Catholic?: Lessons for higher education today
John W. O’Malley
Lessons for higher education today
Film
War Cry: A cold eye on a brutal conflict
John Anderson

The documentary 'Tears of Gaza' casts a cold eye on a brutal conflict.

Books
A Happy Lot
Donald Cozzens
In spite of the sexual abuse scandals and the heavy workload, priests are very happy men.
Back from the Margins: The reemergence of the Cuban Catholic Church
Margaret E. Crahan
The reemergence of the Cuban Catholic Church
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Karen Sue Smith
Editing isn’t the oldest profession, but editors have been around for ages.
Signs Of the Times
Cardinal Martini's Final Thoughts
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

In an interview just before his death the Jesuit cardinal described the church as “200 years out of date” and said the pedophilia scandals “oblige” the church to begin “a journey of transformation.”

'After the Fall'
Kyle T. Kramer
Have fossil fuels given us godlike powers?
Signs Of the Times
News Briefs
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

On Aug. 29 Catholic Charities USA created a special Hurricane Isaac Fund to help fund its immediate and long-term response to widespread damage left behind by the storm.

The Word
Who Is With Us?
Peter Feldmeier
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Sept. 30, 2012
Books
Worth Dying For
Joseph P. Creamer
The lives and sometimes gruesome deaths of the first Jesuits in England and Wales
Signs Of the Times
Democrat and Pro-Life?
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

Is there room to make a dent in the Democratic Party’s staunch support for abortion rights?

Current Comment
Current Comment
The Editors
A Syrian Rashomon; The Greatest; Poltical Thrill Seeking
Signs Of the Times
‘Shredded’ Credibility
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

The U.S. Catholic bishops’ point man on sexual abuse said the situation is comparable to the Reformation, when “the episcopacy, the regular clergy, even the papacy were discredited.”

FaithFaith and Reason
The Road Ahead: Moral Theology after the Margaret Farley Case
James T. BretzkeRichard R. GaillardetzJulie Hanlon Rubio
Three theologians respond to the recent censure of Sister Margaret Farley for her 2006 book 'Just Love.'
Books
Big Questions on Campus
Robert J. Parmach
Andrew Delbanco considers the purpose of a college education.
In All Things
Reading Mormon II: When Jesus Came to America
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Cambridge MA I tell my students that one way to figure out what one thinks is to start writing and to a large extent that is my experience with my short and sporadic study of the 3rd Book of Nephi in the Book of Mormon these past weeks My hope is to convince some readers of this blog at least th