

New Nation, New Responsibilities: How Catholic teaching can help shape the life of South Sudan
How Catholic teaching can help shape the life of South Sudan
Rejoice Always!: The surprisingly joyful theology of 1 Thessalonians
The surprisingly joyful theology of 1 Thessalonians
American Exceptionalism: From a political theory to an article of faith
From a political theory to an article of faith
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Even under the best of circumstances, listening can be a painful sort of asceticism.
Letters
Letters
Just Asking Re the Signs of the Times item “Church Membership Trends Downward” (9/12): Total births from 2000 to 2009 in the United States did not fall, but rose slightly during the first decade of the century to 4,131,019 from 4,058,814. But the statistics are not broken down according
Editorials
Jobs Now
A polarized, politicized Congress has been fiddling while America burns.
Ideas
Letters
” Just Asking Re the Signs of the Times item “Church Membership Trends Downward” (9/12): Total births from 2000 to 2009 in the United States did not fall, but rose slightly during the first decade of the century to 4,131,019 from 4,058,814. But the statistics are not broken down accordin
To See With God’s Eyes: Mary Karr and the Ignatian imagination
Mary Karr’s gritty stories of sin and salvation show us that grace is not always graceful.
Books
In the Beginning
Gordon Wood insists on treating the American founders as figures of their own time.
Blood on Our Hands?
The fate of civilians in America's wars
Joy to the World
Remembering that God shapes us by great joy as much as by great sorrow.
Dealing With the Devil
What political evil is, and how to combat it, are among the most urgent issues of our time.
Hope For A Future Church
The innermost core of the religious education problem is the why.
Theater
Hidden Treasures: The plays of Teresa Deevy
The plays of an forgotten Irish playwright brought satisfyingly into the present.
Poetry
Descending Theology: The Resurrection
From the far star points of his pinned extremities
The Word
Dressed for the Feast
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), Oct. 9, 2011
Columns
Civil Defense
Even carefully mounted arguments meet with name-calling.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Needless Defaults; Google’s Name Game; High-Speed, Low-Cost
Signs Of the Times
The American Dream: Out of Reach?
In 2010, 15.1 percent of Americans—46.2 million people, an all-time high—were living in poverty.
Can We Just Talk?
Deb Word finds shelter for homeless gay and lesbian teens who have been shunned by their own parents.
Signs of the Times
” Poverty The American Dream: Out of Reach? Jon Proctor knows the road to self-sufficiency is a long one. It is even longer when the weekly paycheck totals a little more than $200. “We’re trying to get back on our feet,” the 55-year-old divorced father of six said, explaini
Priests Urged To Preach on Poverty
The U.S. bishops have asked preists to address “the terrible toll the current economic turmoil is taking on families and communities.”
Holy Land Bishops Seek Two-State Solution
The heads of the Christian churches in Jerusalem, including the Latin patriarch, Fouad Twal, reiterated their sense that “a two-state solution serves the cause of peace and justice.”
Mission to Iran
A delegation of Christian and Muslim leaders hope that their visit to Iran will improve relations between the two squabbling countries.
News Briefs
Catholic Charities of New Orleans received $15 million to oversee an effort to provide direct assistance to Louisiana fishing families affected by the 2010 B.P. oil spill.






