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One Jesuit school's comprehensive approach to education
Letters
Some, But Not All A correspondent in a recent issue (Letters, 4/20) wrote that “it is a great pity that the American bishops do not choose to lead by recognizing the complexity of the issue on which they are called to teach, and then teaching in a way that produces more light and less heat.&rd
Signs Of the Times
The visit is considered a new horizon of collaboration between Muslims and Christians, not only in Jordan, but in all the world.
Signs Of the Times
AIDS and H.I.V. need to be our national priority," said Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg
Signs Of the Times
Northern Irelands Catholic bishops have met with a loyalist group in an effort to build peace... and reconciliation, said Cardinal Seán Brady.
Of Many Things
Expectations are low for the pope's visit to the Holy Land, but I am ready to be surprised.
Columns
'Catholic leaders face challenges their predecessors could not fathom.'
What's missing in the debate on education
Recent storms sighted above the Hilltop and the Golden Dome remind us that the Catholic academic community is not living through a time of political serenity, but has a continuing ability to draw lightning strikes from the media, from theological vigilantes and from concerned bishops. How are the moral and religious commitments of the Catholic community to be understood and lived in a pluralistic world where the church itself is subject to alien pressure and hostile scrutiny and where it is experiencing painful internal divisions? Does the recent significant change in the American political landscape point to significant changes in the way the Catholic church and its institutions and its members relate to the American political system? More specifically, how should Catholics respond to the Obama administration?
In All Things
There has only been one story this week in the UK -- and it s not a pretty one Starting last Thursday the Telegraph has been daily publishing details of MPs expenses claims made possible by a new Freedom of Information Act and some assiduous leaking What has been uncovered is a snouts-in-the-tr
In All Things
Cambridge MA On May 3 Swami Sarvagatananda a senior monk of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society and long-time head of the Vedanta Society in Boston died at the age of 96 While his death did not make national headlines it is good to reflect for a moment on his life and its meaning so I will tell
In All Things
On his arrival in Jordan today Pope Benedict spoke of himself as a pilgrim of peace He came he said with ldquo the intention to pray for the precious gift of unity and peace most specifically for the Middle East Peace for individuals for communities peace for Jerusalem for the Holy Land
In All Things
One of the nbsp great things about John Coleman S J is nbsp his ability to write nbsp on seemingly any topic with great grace and lucidity--from theology to sociology and more recently for nbsp America nbsp on art nbsp Here is Fr Coleman a sociologist associate pastor at St Ignatius Churc
In All Things
Paying immigrants to go home has become an increasingly frequent method in some countries for dealing with the global downturn in the economy The Czech Republic Spain and Japan have all taken this approach to offsetting the crisis caused by job layoffs The Czech Republic is offering payments of h
In All Things
nbsp ldquo The evil men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones rdquo nbsp As Pope Benedict XVI makes his way through the Holy Land his mistakes and gaffes haunt the reporting on his trip His course corrections his initiatives and extensions of well-regarded policies
In All Things
L rsquo Osservatore Romano the official newspaper of the Vatican has struck another blow for sanity within the Church Last week it featured an article that assessed the first 100 days of the Obama presidency with balance and with no sense of alarm This week it did the same with the soon to be
In All Things
Last week New York Magazine published a great profile of well-known author Gay Talese who is writing a new book about his 50-year marriage to Nan A Talese a long-time publisher at Random House nbsp Talese gained particular notoriety after publishing Thy Neighbor s Wife a provocative expose on
The Good Word
The First Reading for the fifth Sunday of Easter is Acts 9 26-31 Luke is often thought to give an ideal or idealistic picture of the earliest Church and perhaps this is so though elements of friction disputation and consternation amongst the earliest Christians can be found throughout the Acts