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Editorials
The Editors
Women must be welcomed into every service and leadership role in the church.
Austen Ivereigh
The government is now committed to tackling both the financial deficit and the "social deficit."
Letters
How to Become Irrelevant In response to Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s “A New Relationship” (9/26): The church has followed for centuries the axiom that theology is fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding)—faith being the catechetical part, understanding the theologi
The Word
Barbara E. Reid
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), Oct. 16, 2011
Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

 “Healing a Broken World” calls on Jesuits and their collaborators to “cast a grateful look on creation, letting our heart be touched by its wounded reality."

Of Many Things
Kevin Clarke
Searching for the invisible suburban casualties of the Great Recession.
Signs Of the Times
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A Vatican representative called for “courageous decisions” after Palestinian leaders appealed for statehood.

Columns
Kyle T. Kramer
Lay ministers continue their work to meet the needs of God's people.
Film
Bryan McCarthy

'Higher Ground' shows why when you have faith, it is difficult to understand doubt—and vice versa.

Poetry
Barbara Lydecker Crane

Where is a measured clarity?

Signs Of the Times
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Perhaps in response to social unrest, executions in Iran have spiked this year, with more than 320 tallied by the end of June.

Current Comment
The Editors
Fewer Puffs; Catechesis and Theology; Switch and Bait
Signs Of the Times
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Nobel Peace Price-winner Wangari Maatthai, founder of the Greenbelt Movement, which planted more than 30 million trees in Kenya, died on Sept. 25.

Elias D. Mallon
A closer look at Arab Spring
Television
Maurice Timothy Reidy

The thirteen years of Prohibition provided a case study in unintended consequences.

Culture
Chene Heady
The spiritual fruit of Christina Rossetti
The Good Word
John W. Martens
Let me speak of feasts I have eaten I can recall most of my life through the prism of food made served and shared I have an early memory of sitting in the kitchen of our Vancouver home after trick or treating as a little boy and eating a hot dog and drinking hot chocolate on a cool Halloween even
In All Things
Tom Beaudoin
While participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests in lower Manhattan I have begun to wonder what would happen if Catholics took this model and applied it to their passion for and grievances with their own church nbsp Imagine a group of Catholics whose deep care for the future of their chur
In All Things
Tom Beaudoin
For those who are following the protests in New York City and now around the USA I have written a brief update with a few pictures nbsp here TB
In All Things
Kevin Clarke
I stumbled upon this Washington Post series of photos of a Colorado family being evicted H T to Greg Kandra s The Deacon s Bench and have not been able to stop thinking about this family and what they are going through a tragedy being replicated at thousands of sites around the country I don t k