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The Good Word
This Sunday rsquo s readings all work to deepen for us a common conundrum paradox or challenge relationality mdash how any of us is related with everything else The extraordinary reading from Genesis situates the original human as ldquo alone rdquo until it has named the animals and been config
In All Things
Greyhound the bus of necessity rather than of choice for many low-income travelers around the country provides its tickets more cheaply for those who buy them online That transaction though assumes you have a credit card and internet access for online purchasing Low income people who do not ha
In All Things
Last Friday I called attention to the very fine article by Professor David Nirenberg in the current issue of The New Republic in which he reviews Pope Benedict rsquo s encyclical Caritas in Veritate And I posted a link to my initial response to Nirenberg which has itself garnered some interesting
Of Many Things
Before work each morning President Barack Obama prayerfully reads a passage of Scripture sent him by the Rev. Joshua DuBois, the young Pentecostal preacher who is his director of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. I wonder whether on one of those mornings the president has pondered Lk 11:24-
How U.S. economists missed the Great Recession
Theater
Liv Ullmann talks about faith, Ingmar Bergman and directing "A Streetcar Named Desire."
The Word
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Oct. 4, 2009
Signs Of the Times
The bishops of Nigeria blame government inaction for the death of more than 2,000 people during a recent uprising by an extremist Islamic group.
Signs Of the Times
On the eve of the opening of the 64th General Assembly, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan said the U.N. should embrace the notion of “the human person as the heart of all institutions."
Books
A frankly confessional memoir from a Catholic author and journalist
A defense of the bishops' new high school catechesis
Letters
An Overabundance of Hugs What a treat it was to see the cover of your Aug. 17 issue! The tiny hand being held by the elderly hands of the therapist belongs to my daughter Nora. Daystar, where Nora receives treatments, is a wonderful place that provides foster care and also respite care for infants w
Signs Of the Times
Nearly two years after a controversial presidential election prompted widespread violence, Kenya remains a country on the brink of crisis.
Signs Of the Times
The official lamented that producing urgently needed medicines is no longer driven by traditional medical ethics, but by money.
Books
Recently repeated cheers that only a few hundred thousand workers lost their jobs may reflect the fact that those who measure label and publicly analyze the economy are not among the 14 million unemployed Americans as of June But it is also a sigh of collective relief that so it seems the econom
Father Damien held up by America's most wanted