The Christmas Season comes to a close with the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord The outpouring of the Spirit and the Father s declaration You are my beloved Son make Jesus baptism one of the three traditional Epiphany events That Jesus submitted to receiving baptism a baptism of

Love of neighbor and Christian-Muslim dialogue

Theater Founder Says Disability Is a Gift The life of the imagination has no physical boundaries, and people with physical disabilities can use their imagination to face lifes difficulties. That is the enduring message of Rick Curry, a Jesuit brother, and the organization he founded 30 years ago in

The reception on Dec. 21 into the Catholic Church of the UKs former prime minister, Tony Blair, has echoes of Americas JFK moment, when the old ghosts of suspicion about divided allegiances (Rome or home?) were laid to rest. Yet the fact that it has happened some months after resigning as prime mini

As a title, No Country for Old Men boasts a noble ancestry. It traces its roots through the novel by Cormac McCarthy to the opening line of William Butler Yeats’s poem “Sailing to Byzantium.” In the poem Yeats yearns to leave the ephemeral world of “whatever is begotten, born

Heres a sneak peek at the lead story from the January 7-14 issue, on Tony Blairs journey to the Catholic Church, and why he was advised not to convert while still in office.

Feeling discomfort fellow citizens Do you have a mild pain in the Congress and bloating in the White House Does globalization cause belching nausea or heartburn Here 8217 s something with a very low risk of side effects 8221 So the pharmaceutical industry might try to sell Robert Reich 82

Remembering a Catholic pacifist and founder of Pax Christi USA

According to the Swiss painter Paul Klee, the artist is like the trunk of a tree, drawing up through its roots in the unknown soil below what will bring life to the branches above: leaves, flowers and fruit, a life of which he or she knows nothing. That strikes me as a pretty apt description of the

Can Catholics be a force against the economic inequities of our times?

Fuzzy Focus Regarding My Second First Mass (12/3): While Father Kerpers insights about priestly service are to be applauded, there is a troubling impression that readers can be left with from comparison of presiding at the extraordinary form versus the ordinary form of Mass. He writes, I actually fe

In large part this book about U S -Iranian-Israeli international relations sets out to make a case for the progressive secularization of the post-revolutionary Iranian state In Treacherous Alliance Trita Parsi adjunct professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins University argues cogent

Amid the negative rhetoric of some presidential candidates who seek to exploit the issue of undocumented immigrants, it is important to keep in mind a larger view of “people on the move.” What is happening in the United States represents just a small part of a worldwide phenomenon. A ma

Although the recently published National Intelligence Estimate has changed the nature of the international discussion about Irans nuclear ambition, it has not answered the question of Irans ultimate intention to acquire nuclear weapons. Whereas the intelligence estimate suggests with high probabilit

A reflection on the Feast of the Epiphany

For many readers Jim Forest is inextricably connected to The Catholic Worker movement which he joined in 1961 when he was a part-time student at Hunter College and after his discharge from the U S Navy as a conscientious objector In his earlier books he has written well about Dorothy Day Thomas

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