A major problem now exists for the future of priestly vocations because of “the alliteration of priest and pedophile.”
Politics & Society
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Understanding clerical sex abuse of children: the importance of perspective
It is helpful to understand the sexual abuse of children by priests within the broader context of child victimization.
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What Can Be Done? What Should Be Done?
To write about Sept. 11, 2001, is to know the paucity of one’s vocabulary and literary skill. The words are so disproportionate to the tragedy that the temptation is to stop trying to describe it. John Paul II condemned it as an unspeakable horror and a dark day in the history of humanity, a t
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Dealing With Terrorism
Where does terrorism come from and how far ought any government go to both defeat terrorists and protect citizens’ rights, not least their right to life?
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The Editors: We profess that “evil and death do not have the final say.”
Faced with the enormity of suffering and evil that we have seen in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it is impossible to find words that are adequate to comprehend it. When we search for words to deal with this tragedy, we quickly find ourselves at a loss. In the face
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The Living Wage Movement: There are 20 campaigns underway in cities and counties nationwide.
The struggle of low-wage workers in the United States for survival stands in striking contrast to the booming economy. The stock market, occasional setbacks notwithstanding, has roared to dizzying heights. Business profits have soared. Yet minimum-wage jobs pay 30 percent less in real, inflation-adj
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Religion and Politics in India
Suppression of religious minorities and its nuclear blasts have made India visible to the world.
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Homeless and Hungry
How can it be that in this time of unprecedented prosperity for many in the United States, between 600,000 and 700,000 Americans are homeless on any given night? And that requests for both emergency shelter and food are on the increase around the country? But in fact, the 1999 Status Report on Hunge
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Dr. Paul Farmer: Medicine and liberation theology
How would a health intervention inspired by liberation theology be different from those with more conventional underpinnings?
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The controversy over Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’
From 1989: The controversy surrounding ‘The Satanic Mysteries’ is a paradigm of the difficulties that have existed over the centuries between Islam and the West.