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Signs Of the Times

A priest was found to have violated a condition of his reassignment by continuing to work with youth.

Current Comment
The Editors
Murdered Journalists; Women and the Hierarchy; The Mind of Tony Judt
Television
Carolyn Martin Buscarino

NBC's “Parenthood” offers flashes of pure joy that make its moments of banality worthwhile.

Andrew J. Bacevich
Our guiding illusions in Afghanistan
Faith in Focus
Brian B. Pinter
Jewish dietary regulations remind us of our obligations to our animal companions.
Letters
A Life A.M.D.G. The commentary on the life of John W. Donohue, S.J. (Of Many Things, 3/8) stirred in me fond memories of my freshman year at Canisius High School in 1944-45. We were in the first class to use the “new” school on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo. Our class was special in several
Catholic Book Club
The author of the bestselling My Life With the Saints and culture editor of America magazine now offers The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything a helpful and insightful guide to finding God in all things ldquo the way of Ignatius rdquo Just published this month it has already garnered exten
Signs Of the Times

The bishops said the proposals could harm public safety and separate families.

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

The Archdiocese of Chicago is seeking the canonization of the Rev. Augustine Tolton, the first U.S. priest of African descent.

Editorials
The Editors
Congress needs to address the long-term underfunding of Medicaid.
Television
Paul Knitter

The director of "The Buddha" on PBS can well be considered a successful Buddhist apostle.

George M. Anderson
A Belgian priest revisits a country in transition.
Culture
Ann M. Begley
The life and work of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
In All Things
Valerie Schultz
What a beautiful Mass my husband and I attended in West Hollywood while visiting my cousin and his partner At a church with a vibrant outreach ministry in a mostly gay community this Mass on a sunny Sunday has possibly saved my Catholic faith As the mother of a lesbian daughter I continually st
The Good Word
To Luke we owe the story of the criminal who was crucified with Jesus and who asked Jesus to remember him when he entered his Jesus kingdom nbsp The import of this story is found not only its moment in the Passion Narrative but in its joining many other stories of the same nature that very muc
In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
A powerful editorial by NCR on the sexual abuse crisis sweeping the church nbsp The Holy Father needs to directly answer questions in a credible forum about his role -- as archbishop of Munich 1977-82 as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1982-2005 and as pope 2005-
In All Things
Jim McDermott
So the other day I m watching TV and up comes one of those Sprint commercials -- you know the ones where everything is either white black or yellow and there s that quirky uptempo music in the background and we re meeting different adults who are pretty much acting like they re 15 again Usu
The Good Word
Last Palm Sunday I wrote Christ began his preparation for Palm Sunday and for Easter by taking on human being and then humbling himself becoming obedient to the point of death even death on a cross as Paul tells us in Philippians 2 8 a part of Palm Sunday rsquo s Second Reading The second
In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
In his magnificent book Wartime Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War Paul Fussell writes movingly of a then little-known wartime memoir by E B Sledge called With the Old Breed nbsp As I recall from Fussell s book which I must have read four or five times nbsp the author averr
In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
How could it happen nbsp The terrible revelations of sexual abuse in Ireland and Germany have confirmed the reality that the abuse of children by clergy is not a phenomenon confined to the United States Nor as Kieran Conroy the bishop of Arundel and Brighton in the U K nbsp stated recently n