What is the Goal?: The increasingly complex intervention in Libya
Pro-democracy protests began against the dictatorial regime of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in mid-February. Within days, Qaddafi resorted to force, killing dozens. Within a week, regime opponents had opted for armed conflict. The rebels gained control of Benghazi and other towns, but as Qaddafi looked set to defeat them, the United Nations Security Council adopted <a…
Divided On Torture: How to build a public consensus for the moral treatment of detainees
How to build a public consensus for the moral treatment of detainees
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
A prayer to accept the baggage that comes with getting older
Letters
Letters
God Did What? Ilia Delio’s “Faith and the Cosmos” (4/4) reminds me, as I work on my Ph.D. in historical theology at a Catholic university, that few of my colleagues are capable of doing much in regard to science and evolution. The biggest obstacle is not lack of desire, let alone a
Editorials
Diplomacy as Exit Strategy: Guest editorial
Better to settle with a word, as St. Augustine wrote, than with the sword.
Faith in Focus
Family Reunion: Even America’s political polarization cannot keep us apart
Even America’s political polarization cannot keep us apart.
How God Speaks: Parents can help children learn how to listen to God.
Parents can help children learn how to listen to God.
Art
Contemplative Compassion: Antonello da Messina and the suffering Christ
Antonello da Messina and the suffering Christ
Caring for Gods creation
Bookings In the Book of Genesis, God creates a lush world thick with birds, fish, animals and every good thing, and entrusts this sacred gift to man. This environmental stewardship motivates “green” Pope Benedict’s activism, from installing solar panels in the Vatican to urging a r
Letters
” God Did What? Ilia Delio’s “Faith and the Cosmos” (4/4) reminds me, as I work on my Ph.D. in historical theology at a Catholic university, that few of my colleagues are capable of doing much in regard to science and evolution. The biggest obstacle is not lack of desire, let alone
Quaking With Joy
As the people of Japan, Christchurch and Haiti slowly rebuild their lives after suffering the devastating effects of earthquakes, a detail unique to Matthew’s account of the empty tomb catches one’s attention. The placid daybreak is shattered with “a great earthquake” (28:2),
Film
Hanging Ten, Steadied from Above: Faith takes action in ‘Soul Surfer’
Only the prickliest atheist could take offense at the Christian message of ‘Soul Surfer.’
Poetry
Gethsemane
Will no one wake and watch this night with me?
The Word
Quaking With Joy
Easter (A), April 24, 2011
Columns
Some Kind of Deficit
Current budget proposals amount to eating our seed corn.
Culture
Caring for God’s Creation: Books for budding environmentalists
Books for budding environmentalists
Current Comment
Current Comment
Libya: Proceed with Caution; Send in the Drones; Vanishing Religion?
Signs Of the Times
Montagnard Christians Targeted By ‘Political Security’ Units
The government of Vietnam has reprotedly intensified repression of indigenous Christians from the country’s central highland provinces.
Is Restorative Justice Possible in Aftermath of Scandal?
In a frank address in Milwaukee, Wi., Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said “restorative justice is not cheap justice.”
Tuition Credit Survives Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on April 4 tossed out a challenge to Arizona’s tuition tax credit program.
Religious Liberty for All
As Catholics, “we understand the need…to [protect] the civil rights of our Muslim brothers and sisters,” Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said.
Protests in South Africa
Violent protests by South Africans demanding better living conditions are a warning to the authorities, church leaders said.
News Briefs
The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine concluded that a book by Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J., “contains misrepresentations, ambiguities and errors.”
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