Las Casas’ Discovery: What the ‘Protector of the Indians’ found in America
What the ‘Protector of the Indians’ found in America
Doing Theology in Africa: Excerpts from an ethics conference in Kenya
In the November 5 issue Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, S.J., reports on a conference on theological ethics held in Nairobi, Kenya in August 2012. “For three days, 35 African theologians engaged in intense conversation about pressing issues confronting church and society in Africa from the perspective of theological ethics,” Father Orabator writes. “Judging by…
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
At the heart of our faith is not an idea or a philosophy but a person.
Letters
Letters
Time to Draw the Curtain I admit to a certain wistfulness on the part of those of us old enough to remember photos like the one on the cover of the Oct. 8 issue showing Good Pope John. I felt I was in a time warp, again viewing this scene, replete with the copes and…
Editorials
A Prayer for Malala
The world wounds itself in its suppression of girls.
Short Take
Out of Africa: How a new generation of theologians is reshaping the church
How a new generation of theologians is reshaping the church.
Faith in Focus
Toeing the Line: Finding balance in long-distance running
Finding balance in long-distance running
Books
When Winter Threatens
The unfinished revolutions of the new Middle East
Grumpy Genius
Thomas Hart Benton found authentic subjects on Manhattan subways and Martha’s Vineyard beaches.
A Christian Realist
Reinhold Niebuhr in conversation Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Adams and Walter Lippmann.
Let Us Pray
There are as many ways to pray as there are people who pray.
Broken Wings
Can anyone hold a candle to Jonathan Franzen in the world of contemporary American belles lettres?
Art
Misunderstood Masterpiece: Salvador Dali’s ‘The Sacrament of the Last Supper’
Salvador Dali’s ‘The Sacrament of the Last Supper’
The Word
Comfort Zones
Have you ever wondered what the Bible meant by scribe Minimally scribes were educated people who read and wrote for a living Scribes could be hired by illiterate people the vast majority for legal and financial matters More typically scribes were also experts in Torah the Mosaic law and th
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Bullseye!
Archery engages not only the body, but also the mind.
Faith
Out of Africa: How a new generation of theologians is reshaping the church
How a new generation of theologians is reshaping the church.
Toeing the Line: Finding balance in long-distance running
Finding balance in long-distance running
Signs Of the Times
Victims’ Families Seek ‘Justice’ at 9/11 Trial
By traveling to Guantánamo Bay, the family members had a unique opportunity to face personally the men accused of murdering their loved ones.
Christians Worry, But Note Signs of Freedom
Some of Egypt’s Christians are concerned about Islamists in power, but there is greater freedom of speech than before the revolution.
Accent on the ‘New’
As a global synod convened in October, it may be fair to ask how the “new” evangelization differs from the “old.”
Syria Delegation
A papal delegation of bishops, including Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, will travel to the capital of war-torn Syria in late October.
Scapegoating the Aged
Western nations must resist the pressure to “scapegoat, abandon, even kill, the elderly as a cost-cutting measure,” an Australian bishop said.
Vulnerable to Violence In Guatemala
In Guatemala young women are vulnerable to many forms of violence, according to the human rights office of the Archdiocese of Guatemala City.
News Briefs
Jacques Berthieu, a French Jesuit (1838–96) and missionary in Madagascar, was canonized in Rome on Oct. 21 together with six other blessed.
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