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The Editors
Acting in Good Faith; Lasting Institutions; A Men's World
Signs Of the Times

Catholics leaders urge Congress and Obama to remember the poor and most vulnerable as crisis talks continue on debt ceiling and deficit reduction.

Nicholas P. Cafardi
Suggestions for Faithful Voting
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The Indian bishops spoke a day after three bombs in Mumbai left at least 17 people dead and more than 140 injured.

Television
Terrance Klein

Catch a glimpse of America’s ballistic soul on 'Falling Skies,' the popular new sci-fi series on TNT.

Signs Of the Times

The bishops said that true definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman “cannot change, though we realize that our beliefs...will continue to be ridiculed."

Agnes Nixon
I grew up in Nashville, Tenn., in an Irish-Catholic enclave, at a time when Catholics made up less than 1 percent of the population and the whole state was one diocese. I am the fourth generation of women in my family to go to the St. Cecilia Dominican Academy, started before the Civil War. I loved
Signs Of the Times
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A coalition of religious investors wants officials at 27 major U.S. companies to look deeper into the role human trafficking may play in the operation of their firms.

Editorials
The Editors
For Mexico to prosecute its drug war successfully, policy across the border has to change.
Signs Of the Times
Mary Durran - Catholic News Service

Latin America bishops call on northern countries to value the rich Latin American biodiversity that is threatened by extractive industries.

Faith in Focus
Cynthia Reville Peabody
What keeps women in the church?
Signs Of the Times
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Faith leaders say they will devote time during or after worship services to explaining the legislation.

Books
John Borelli
'Ut Unum Sint' and the prospects of uniting the Eastern and Western churches
The Word
Barbara E. Reid
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), July 24, 2011
Ideas
Jon M. Sweeney

As we tweet and hyperlink, can we sustain the concentration required for real discovery?

Signs Of the Times
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One 15-year-old had grown so accustomed to the war raging around him that he lost his fear of the ordnance scattered on the ground in his neighborhood.

Of Many Things
For 35 years I have come to this Jesuit villa to think, pray, read and write.
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Pope Benedict opened a new Vatican Internet news portal with the first-ever papal tweet on June 28.

Columns
Maryann Cusimano Love
Is life nasty, brutish and short, or are peace and love possible?
Signs Of the Times
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Tunisia's tiny Catholic community prays for the country's transition to democracy and hopes that the nation will embrace full religious freedom.