Forgive Us Our Debts: How should we think about bankruptcy?
How should we think about bankruptcy?
Congo’s Lament: A country rich in resources remains mired in poverty.
A country rich in resources remains mired in poverty.
A Pope in Wartime: Why did Pius XII act as he did?
Why did Pius XII act as he did?
Uncertain Sympathies: John Patrick Shanley’s ‘Doubt’
The sun doesn’t shine much in the Bronx neighborhood where John Patrick Shanley’s powerful film, Doubt, is set. The atmosphere is gray and cold; its melancholy mood is disturbed only once in the film by a fierce wind storm that blows down many of the bare limbs of the convent trees. The winds of change…
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
A new take on the Roman Martyrology
Letters
Letters
A Return to Collegiality Thank you for your strong endorsement of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (Current Comment, 12/8). It should be noted that in recent years the Vatican, operating on a narrower understanding of episcopal collegiality, has limited the authority of such conferences. At t
Editorials
The Art of the Possible
From 2008: can prolifers work with the Obama administration to reduce abortions?
Faith in Focus
Joy Is on the Way: Third in a series for Advent and Christmas
Third in a series for Advent and Christmas
Books in Brief
Christmas Poems New Directions. 96p $11.95 A wonderful stocking stuffer, this collection of Christmas poems, carols and ballads (assembled by the publisher) draws from the literature of many places and times—spanning, in fact, almost 2,000 years. Its contents of 84 entries very tidily provide
Books
Unity Amid Plurality
This is the third and final volume of a historical and systematic overview of comparative theologies of the church A significant contribution to the contemporary debates on ecclesiology among the churches it follows two comparative historical volumes providing a theology ldquo from below rdquo
She Ignited the Crowds
Michael O rsquo Neill McGrath O S F S had never heard of the Catholic nun and gospel singer Thea Bowman while she was alive but once he discovered her as we learn in this splendid short memoir she transformed his life ldquo I like to tell folks that I have a little black nun…
Poetry
Urgency
Fear not, young woman,
The Word
A Dwelling Place for God
Fourth Sunday of Advent (B), Dec. 21, 2008
Columns
Abortion Absolutists: ‘The sad reality is that extremists on both sides are alienating citizens from one another.’
‘The sad reality is that extremists on both sides are alienating citizens from one another.’
Culture
Do-You-Good Anthologies: Some poetry for the soul
Some poetry for the soul
Current Comment
Current Comment
Was Adam Smith Wrong? A Wave of Hate
News
Signs of the Times
Vatican Praises Galileo as a Man of Faith Sixteen years after Pope John Paul II said the Catholic Church erred when it condemned the 17th-century astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Vatican secretary of state said the astronomer was “a man of faith” who recognized God as creator of the cosmo
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts