Cesar’s Choice: How America’s farm workers got organized
Fifty two years ago today, Cesar Chavez marked his birthday by quitting his job in order to establish a labor union for migrant farmworkers.
The Next Battle: Veterans are fighting for jobs on the homefront.
Veterans are fighting for jobs on the homefront.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
“Vinny” O’Keefe was one of the great figures in contemporary Jesuit history.
Letters
Letters
Permissible Lobbying Re “Politics and the Pulpit” by Nicholas P. Cafardi (7/30): Dr. Cafardi seems to imply that Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle engaged in impermissible lobbying by assisting in gathering signatures in support of Referendum 74 in Washington State to undo the same-
Editorials
R2P May Still Work
The Responsibility to Protect seems tailor-made for the current civil war in Syria.
Books
Root Study
The Jewish Annotated New Testament should leave a mark on all Christian preaching.
Lost and Found
The Variations attempts make inroads “on the vast terrain of what cannot be said.”
In A Man’s World
Catherine the Great remains one of the most intriguing women in history.
Theater
Summers with Shakespeare: America’s many festivals, indoors and out, stage the Bard.
America’s many festivals, indoors and out, stage the Bard.
The Word
It’s About Holiness
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Sept. 2, 2012
The Messianic Secret
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Sept. 9, 2012
Columns
Suppressing the Vote?: Restrictive voting laws are the opposite of electoral reform.
Restrictive voting laws are the opposite of electoral reform.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Foreclosure Forgiveness; Marketing Health Insurance; Status of Christians
Signs Of the Times
Church Challenges Female Feticide
Participants in sex-selective abortions should be charged with murder, said the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India Office for Women.
Residences of Melkite, Maronite Archbishops in Aleppo Ransacked
Fighting in Aleppo, Syria, has not spared the residences of the local Melkite and Maronite Catholic archbishops.
As Kenyans Live With HIV, Parish Stresses Economic Independence
According to one report, women there are almost 50 percent more likely than men to contract the disease.
Disaster Responders Poised To Aid Gulf Coast
Florida’s seven-diocese network of church-affiliated emergency responders prepares for Isaac’s landfall.
Dolan to Close of Both Parties’ Conventions
New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan will offer closing prayers at the Democratic National Convention Sept. 6, as he will at the Republican National Convention a week earlier
Applicants Line Up for Deferred Deportation
The first days of deferred deportation for some young adults brought out tens of thousands of applicants to workshops around the country.
State Department Issues Annual Report
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered a “sobering” global depiction of fundamental human rights at risk.
Syrian Refugees Face Uncertain Future
“The situation we are in at the moment is terrible. What tomorrow will bring?”
Few Health Care Plans Change on August 1
August 1 is the first possible date when health plans could be required to cover eight new preventive services for women under the Affordable Care Act.
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