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In All Things
The Catholic Abuse Crisis in Light of Easter
Jim McDermott
Andrew Hamilton S J offers an unflinching and intriguing take on the Catholic abuse crisis seen through the perspective of Easter this week in Eureka Street the Australian Jesuits online magazine The stories of sexual abuse throughout the Catholic world are not a distraction from Easter If w
In All Things
Send in the Cavalry
Michael Sean Winters
If you were a student in a first-year Communications class and you were asked to devise a strategy for taking a situation say a scandal involving the clerical abuse of minors and make the situation worse to devise ways to add fuel to the flames rather than to squelch them to present yourself as
Editorials
Early in the Morning
The Editors
Despite our best efforts as believers, it is often hard to see the glory for the gloom.
The Word
Held Fast in Peace
Barbara E. Reid
Second Sunday of Easter (C), April 11, 2010
Signs Of the Times
Archbishop Asks Accountability of Colleagues

“Without accountability for the past there will be no healing and no trust for the future,” Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said.

Signs Of the Times
Latinos More Secular, Not Protestant

A study reports that Latinos who have left the church since 1990 have shifted toward secularism as they become more Americanized.

Art
The Artist as Believer: James Tissots visionary paintings of Jesus
Karen Sue Smith

James Tissot’s paintings of Jesus' life and death are signs of a vibrant Christian imagination.

Books
Into Every Corner of the Globe
John W. OMalley
Diarmaid MacCulloch's 'Christianity' begins a millennium before the birth of Christ.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Drew Christiansen
The failure of my first pastoral challenge still weighs on me.
Judgment Day: Bertrand Russell enters the pearly gates.
Bernard J. Verkamp
Bertrand Russell enters the pearly gates.
Letters
Letters
Worthy of Recognition Re “Historian’s Progress” (Current Comment, 3/29): I am a long-time reader and admirer of Tony Judt’s work. How wonderful of America to recognize his most recent work in The New York Review of Books. I do not know which is more worthwhile, his essay &ldq
Signs Of the Times
U.S. Updates Reporting to Include Itself

Vulnerable populations affected by wars and internal conflicts were among the major concerns highlighted in the report.

Signs Of the Times
Haitian N.G.O.s Seek Reconstruction Role

More than 26 groups say their calls for a new model of development in Haiti are being ignored.

Television
War as Hell: 'The Pacific' plumbs the heart of darkness
Maurice Timothy Reidy

What makes “The Pacific” worth watching is the opportunity to observe the genesis of a new global order.

Books
Intellectual Innovations
Richard M. Gula
A towering history of moral theology from James F. Keenan, S.J.
Columns
One Step at a Time
Margaret Silf
If we can fall so easily through one little choice, what about the rising?
Current Comment
Current Comment
The Editors
Strategic Divide with Israel; Achieving Step One in Health Care
Poetry
Todo-Nada
Robert F. Morneau

Here is the coin carried by John of the Cross.

Signs Of the Times
Nuclear Strategy Deters Disarmament

The Vatican nuncio to the United Nations said that cold war conditions that encouraged the church’s “limited toleration of nuclear deterrence” no longer exist.

Signs Of the Times
News Briefs

More than 200,000 people gathered for the March for America in Washington, D.C., in support of comprehensive immigration reform.