Integrity Requires Candor Americas Current Comment Conversion/Covenant (8/13) seems to me to stress unduly the difference between the prayer for conversion of the Jews in the 1962 Missal, and the prayer in the 1970 Missal for the Jewish people, the first to hear the Word of God, that they may contin

Why is a 14-year veteran U S Marine officer a Texan working for Al Jazeera the so-called terrorist network Jazeera is not the mouthpiece of Al Qaeda as U S propaganda claims It is the only nongovernmental 24-hour news network to reach the Arab world and its cutting-edge technology allows it

The face of the Catholic Church in America has changed--and will likely continue changing--in the wake of Vatican II historic events scandals a new papacy and an increasingly pro-active laity Based on almost two decades of Gallup surveys from 1987 to 2005 American Catholics Today has been uni

Who Lost Iraq? As Congress and the White House prepare for the assessment due on Sept. 15 of the situation in Iraq, an article in the current issue of Foreign Affairs merits their attention. James Dobbins, a former assistant secretary of state, asks, Who Lost Iraq? Mr. Dobbins argues that responsibi

The plane touched down in Las Vegas. Neither my friend nor I had much of a clue about camping; so along with the tent, the sleeping bags and the backpacks, we had with us all kinds of things that might come in useful. We could hardly move beyond the carousel. In fact that Hercules transporter you ma

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Twenty-third Sunday The first reading Wis 9 13-18b offers a perspective that seems at odds with much that is claimed often in the Scripture predictably in homilies surely in popular pronouncement The Book of Wisdom likely the youngest book in the Old Testament speaks of the gap between what

The juxtaposition of the readings from Philemon 9-10 12-17 and the Gospel of Luke 14 25-33 place in high relief the issue of ancient Christian family values and much to the surprise and chagrin of some they do not replicate the values necessarily of either Mayberry or Riverdale or whatever

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The National Catholic Bible Conference was held this summer in Chicago Among the talks it advertised was one entitled Old Testament Wars and the Spiritual Battle I did not go to the conference but I was intrigued by the description of this talk in the brochure I received How should we inter

Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year Sir 3 17-18 20 28-29 Heb 12 18-19 22-24 Luke 14 1 7-14 We all care about what other people think of us We want to be respected and to be taken seriously Our reputation is important to us And that s the way it should be On the other hand we would all agre

22nd Sunday One of the most basic human responses to anything new is to ask What s in it for me We would like to think our motives are pure and our interests are for others but there is often a nagging voice reminding us that selfish desires are never far from the surface That said we all

A review of Paul Lakeland's latest book

The time is ripe for labor reform.

Vatican II marked a watershed in the ecumenical movement. Where do things stand now?

The story of the rowdy young man who was martyred for refusing to obey Hitler.

Much To Tell Us Having been a lay missionary, I much appreciated the article The New, Lay Face of Missionaries, by Vincent Gragnani (7/30). I would certainly encourage anyone who can to spend some time doing mission work, either in the United States or abroad. While we all hope and try to help the p