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Editorials
The Editors
Forward-looking nations should reduce their dependence on nuclear power while converting to renewable alternatives.
Signs Of the Times

More than 1,400 people have been killed since the regime of Bashar al-Assad began its brutal clampdown on dissent in Syria.

Kerry Weber

Male discussion groups have proved successful on college campuses, but the exploration of male spirituality can be valuable to men of any age. Listed below are a few resources from the Center for Action and Contemplation, founded by Richard Rohr, O.F.M. You can find a more complete resource list here.

Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

A referendum in Italy has spotlighted an emerging social justice issue: access to safe water as a basic human right.

Signs Of the Times
John Thavis

Cardinal Angelo Scola's appointment as archbishop of Milan prompts some to wonder about Cardinal Scola's "papabile" rating.

Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

Catholic bishops of the North and Central America cited "those searching for work, asylum-seekers, refugees and victims of human trafficking.”

Books
Richard M. Gula
Conversion has been a central theme in the writings of Charles Curran.
The Word
Barbara E. Reid
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), July 10, 2011
Of Many Things
Francis X. Hezel
As I drove toward downtown Buffalo, I passed the detritus of a Catholic city.
James Martin, S.J.
How well is the church reaching out to people in the digital age?
Clarissa V. Aljentera
My journey from journalism to campus ministry
Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
Structural discrimination and a steady increase in violence against religious minorities in Pakistan are creating a system of two-tiered citizenship, one for Muslims and one for non-Muslims, according to a new report from an Islamic research center. The study, A Question of Faith, published by the J
Poetry
Jennifer Lynn Wills

a man came in the door

Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

Dozens of churches in Indonesia come under attack every year, and the country’s president is failing to take action to stop it, a Catholic activist says.

The Good Word
John W. Martens
The second reading for the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Romans 8 9 11-13 speaks of the Spirit-Flesh antithesis yet nbsp it is difficult not to see the specter of Mind-Body dualism hovering over the passage which always winds up as bad news for the body The passage as found in the lectio
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman announced his candidacy for president using the same backdrop that Ronald Reagan once chose New York rsquo s Statue of Liberty Michelle Bachmann emphasized her roots in the hometown of her childhood Waterloo Iowa proving yet ag
In All Things
Terrance Klein
Former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman announced his candidacy for president using the same backdrop that Ronald Reagan once chose New York rsquo s Statue of Liberty Michelle Bachmann emphasized her roots in the hometown of her childhood Waterloo Iowa proving yet again
In All Things
Tim Reidy
From Criterio magazine via Mirada Global a tribute to the late Argentinian writer He would have made it to being a century old if it hadn rsquo t occurred to him to die two months short of his 100th birthday Argentinean writer Ernesto Sabato was born in Rojas a city in the pampa 240 km from Bue
In All Things
Michael J. O’Loughlin
In a not surprising turn of events Catholic News Agency reports that while Cardinal Jose Policarpo s remarks were accurate about the possibility of women priests that they were taken out of context and that the president of Portugal s bishops confernce does not support female ordination From the
In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
Below is a newly surfaced nbsp account of a brief conversation that Dorothy Day the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement and longtime peace activist now being considered for canonization had with Daniel Marshall a longtime member of the Catholic Worker movement around 1977 a few years bef