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Jesuit effort brings food and health care to the margins in East Timor
At the top of a hillside in East Timor, Christina Da Cruz and her colleague Leonora Mendonsa slowly maneuver an aging four-wheel-drive stacked with plates, spoons and a massive pot of soupy stew to a halt by a small, whitewashed church atop the village of Cocoa. Their aim is to provide as much nutrition to as many children as they can during their visit.
FaithFeatures
A new Vatican team supports fitness and the value of being Christian. And they just might make it to the Olympics someday.
Arts & CulturePoetry
It wanted to turn, the stern rocking around
to the front, taking the place of the bow,
the bow to the stern, port to starboard
FaithThe Word
In this parable, Luke presents a complex study of the interplay of freedom, duty and love.
FaithEditorials
America strives to understand and highlight the experiences of those on the margins.
Arts & CultureYour Take
When asked if sports build character, 75 percent of respondents said yes and 25 percent said no.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Watching the N.C.A.A. annual college basketball tournament has become a tradition for many Catholics. March Madness is also a huge moneymaker for everyone except the players.
Arts & CultureBooks
California governors Pat and Jerry Brown played pivotal roles in a startling array of events in the state's history.
FaithLast Take
As I approach 90, I am less concerned with outward appearances—things like what I wear, how my hair looks, what others think of me—and more concerned with my inner life and how I relate to the world around me.
FaithLent Reflections
When I was growing up, the impending arrival of Lent brought on great anxiety over what to give up — soda? chocolate? or most drastically, all sweets?
FaithJesuitical
This week, we talk with Mireille Twayigira, a Jesuit Refugee Service Education Advocate.
FaithPodcasts
In this episode, we look at the reforms the U.S. Catholic Bishops drafted after the sexual abuse crisis of 2002. How did these new rules change things for Catholics in parishes around the country?
FaithShort Take
A summit hosted by The Leadership Roundtable found concrete ways to address the church’s twin crises: a crisis of abuse and a crisis of leadership failures and cover-up.
FaithPodcasts
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Gerry O’Connell and I update you on what has been happening since the sexual abuse summit.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona moved the Casa Alitas shelter for asylum seekers to the monastery in January. Their previous location in Tucson was not big enough to accommodate the influx of asylum seekers.
Politics & SocietyNews
A campaign by faith-based investors and investment networks, spearheaded by a New York congregation of women religious, led the nation's largest consumer bank to announce it intended to stop investing in private prison firms.
FaithNews
By next year, Jewish people everywhere will know what World War II-era Pope Pius XII did -- and didn't -- do to save Jewish lives during the worst ethnic cleansing in human history.
FaithLent Reflections
When it comes to moral and spiritual choices, there are no inconsequential decisions.
FaithVatican Dispatch
The court imposed a six-month suspended prison sentence on him, meaning he will not have to spend time in prison.
Arts & CultureBooks
Gary Pomerantz's detailed exploration of Bob Cousy's career touches on the heroic moments and the bitter failures of the Boston Celtics, including a shameful history of racial prejudice.