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The Good Word
I love the Christmas season even if prior to becoming a Catholic I tried to invent it myself nbsp Admittedly it was an inchoate creation based upon buying little treats each week which I would hide away in preparation for Christmas day These were not mind you gifts for family members just
In All Things
The issue of federal funding for abortion threatens to derail final passage of a health care bill All sides claim the same goal Extending the logic of the Hyde Amendment which bans federal funds from covering abortions in any current government insurance program to the newly configured exchanges
Signs Of the Times
The growing number of people in U.S. detention centers has made the issue of access even more urgent.
Signs Of the Times
In a letter on Nov. 12, the Mexican bishops’ conference rebuked narcotics-trafficking cartelsfor their murderous ways.
Of Many Things
Making the move from the Great Plains to the gritty urbanity of New York
Six experts interpret what 'Charity in Truth' says about the issues of our times.
Books
For Thomas Berry, water, rocks and trees are not ancillary to his thought, but constitutive.
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
The prison is the symbol of our country’s violation of our deepest values” and must be closed immediately, a group of religious leaders said.
Signs Of the Times
" Detained Migrants Deserve Spiritual Care Migrants and refugees in prisons and detention centers have the same right to spiritual assistance as any other person, a U.S. bishop told a Vatican meeting. Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration
The genius of Michael Ford’s new book, Spiritual Masters for All Seasons (paperback, Hidden Spring) is not that it tells the stories and limns the theologies of four great contemporary Catholic spiritual masters—Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Anthony de Mello and John O’Donohue. The
Film
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
Signs Of the Times
Over three million people in Colombia have been dislocated by civil war and violence related to drug trafficking.
Signs Of the Times
" Close Guantánamo, Says Anti-torture Group Religious leaders have renewed their call to Congress seeking the immediate closure of the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The prison “is the symbol of our country’s violation of our deepest values” and must be
Signs Of the Times
The embargo “undeniably has a negative influence on the life of the people,” Archbishop Celli told Vatican Radio Nov. 13.
Letters
Ecumenism in the Classroom I was excited to read the excellent article “Basketball Diary,” by B. G. Kelley (11/16). When I first came to the evangelical school where I teach English, I was the only Catholic. Now, in my 10th year, I have three Catholic colleagues. I too have felt a stro
Editorials
The passage by the House of a health care bill is both an achievement and a mere first step.