Explainer

Of Many Things

Of Many Things

I graduated from journalism school in 2000, a heady time when newspapers were still hiring young people with enthusiasm but little experience. With a little help from a friend, I got a job at The Hartford Courant, a reputable midsize newspaper. During my three years at the Courant, management introd

by Maurice Timothy Reidy

Letters

Letters

Weve Got Issues Regarding Bishops on Citizenship (11/5), what about the other moral issues that face voters today? Once again, matters of conscience are reduced to bioethical issues. There is no denying that abortion, euthanasia, stem cell and cloning are significant, but so are the other life and j

by America Staff

Editorials

Faith and Reason

Faith in Focus

A Doubter Gives Lessons in Faith

Thomas the Apostle needs a publicist. Even though in Johns Gospel he gives voice to the most profound statement of faith in the New Testament, My Lord and my God, the first word that comes to mind for most of us on hearing his name is doubtingdoubting Thomas. We forget his courageous response when J

by Gerald M. Fagin

Visiting the Age of Rembrandt

We thought we knew him, with that searching unsettling gaze of his, the man with a peasant face who became the master of light and shadow, saturated color and probing psychology. The guises in which he presented himself varied greatly: here as a soldier, there as a prince, now as a beggar or as a…

by Leo J. ODonovan

Books

Whence Comes Censorship?

Just after the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept 11 2001 White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer warned Americans at a press conference that we are now living in an era in which 8220 we have to watch what we say 8221 Since that declaration I have been searching for a book de

by Gene Roman

Broken Alliance

R 233 mi Brague has had two previous books translated into English The Wisdom of the World The Human Experience of the World in Western Thought 2003 French original 1999 traces the ways in which people have related human action to cosmological realities that serve as models for judging right

by Michael J. Kerlin

The Word

Perseverance and Holiness

From time to time someone predicts that the world is going to end on such-and-such a date These predictions are typically greeted with a mixture of fear ridicule and bemusement In New Testament times many people seemed to have been concerned if not with the end of the world then at least with t

by Daniel J. Harrington

Culture

A Friend of God

Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta (Doubleday, $22.95) is a disturbing book, one that has become a lightning rod for commentators of every stripe, from believers to unbelievers. Can it also be read as a consoling book? I believe so, though the consolation is not “c

by William A. Barry

Current Comment

Current Comment

Conscience and Information Two newspapers in Malaysia were recently closed down for specified periods as a punitive measure after their editors published controversial cartoons. In both cases the press could be seen as an equal opportunity offender, since one cartoon pictured the prophet Muhammad an

by The Editors

Faith

News

Signs of the Times

Conscientious Objector to Nazis Beatified in Austria A Vatican cardinal beatified Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who was beheaded in 1943 after he refused to fight in Hitler’s army. Presiding over the beatification Mass in Linz, Austria, Oct. 26, Cardinal José Saraiva Ma

by From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

Recent

See all

Gift this article