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Culture
Books for budding environmentalists
Art
Bookings In the Book of Genesis, God creates a lush world thick with birds, fish, animals and every good thing, and entrusts this sacred gift to man. This environmental stewardship motivates “green” Pope Benedict’s activism, from installing solar panels in the Vatican to urging a r
Signs Of the Times
The Supreme Court on April 4 tossed out a challenge to Arizona’s tuition tax credit program.
Signs Of the Times
The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine concluded that a book by Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J., “contains misrepresentations, ambiguities and errors.”
Faith in Focus
Even America's political polarization cannot keep us apart.
Letters
God Did What? Ilia Delio’s “Faith and the Cosmos” (4/4) reminds me, as I work on my Ph.D. in historical theology at a Catholic university, that few of my colleagues are capable of doing much in regard to science and evolution. The biggest obstacle is not lack of desire, let alone a
Film
Only the prickliest atheist could take offense at the Christian message of 'Soul Surfer.'
Art
" God Did What? Ilia Delio’s “Faith and the Cosmos” (4/4) reminds me, as I work on my Ph.D. in historical theology at a Catholic university, that few of my colleagues are capable of doing much in regard to science and evolution. The biggest obstacle is not lack of desire, let alone
Signs Of the Times
The government of Vietnam has reprotedly intensified repression of indigenous Christians from the country’s central highland provinces.
Signs Of the Times
As Catholics, "we understand the need...to [protect] the civil rights of our Muslim brothers and sisters,” Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said.
The Good Word
I am always worried when people go to the ldquo that rsquo s how Jesus did it rdquo arguments especially when Ned Flanders gets dissed in the process ldquo You don rsquo t think I should overturn your tables That rsquo s what Jesus did in the Temple rdquo ldquo Whoa I rsquo m sorry you don
The Good Word
The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them they brought the donkey and the colt and put their cloaks on them and he sat on them A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road The crowds that went ahead of him and
In All Things
Palm Sunday raises at least two nbsp important spiritual questions for Christians What does it mean to be like Jesus And what does it means to take up our crosses just like he did First you don t need to go looking for your cross Life gives them to you Whether it s an illness or a tough famil
In All Things
I m completely and utterly biased favorably that is about this article since I m a New England Jesuit and nbsp know well all the Jesuits nbsp quoted and pictured in reference to Fairfield University s beautiful new and environmentally friendly Jesuit residence nbsp The old residence was
In All Things
Cambridge MA I had been thinking recently of writing a blog on my life at Harvard in recent days by way of example detailing this most interesting and exhausting week since my return from Korea That I should write it now still early on the Saturday morning before Palm Sunday is inspired by
The Good Word
My comments on Wednesday with respect to historical reality and ldquo deception rdquo in the Bible drove me back to some good friends books on interpretation of the Bible What I found disturbing in the original post on which I was commenting and in many of the comments which followed was this
In All Things
Don t miss in this week s Culture section nbsp Paul Mariani s lively piece on working with the actor James Franco in a recent film adaptation of Mariani s own biography of the American poet Hart Crane nbsp An excerpt This energy this promise this brilliance this tragic dance that was Hart
In All Things
Since Fr Jim s excellent post earlier on the problem of incivility in the Catholic blogosphere John Allen has written intriguingly at NCR about the need to overcome what he calls tribal Catholicism - the fragmentation of the Church which he says means increasingly we re becoming strangers to o