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'We Have a Lot of Work to Do'

February 16, 2015

Vol. 212 / No. 5

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Chiara Lubich
Signs Of the Times

The cause for the beatification of Chiara Lubich, founder of the international Focolare Movement, was opened on Jan. 27 in a celebration in the Cathedral of Frascati, near Rome. • Shower facilities for homeless people in Rome will open in St. Peter’s Square on Feb. 15, but the service wil

Signs Of the Times

If the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down federal subsidies that have helped millions of people obtain health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act, it will be “an incredible cruelty,” said Carol Keehan, D.C., the president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Health Associatio

Signs Of the Times

The world’s first Jesuit community college—Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago—is scheduled to open at the university’s Water Tower Campus on Aug. 17. The college, named for the late Pedro Arrupe, S.J., a former Jesuit superior general, aims to provide prospective stu

Signs Of the Times
Anthony Egan, S.J.February 04, 2015

Skin color is a evolutionary accident of geography. That does not mean racism isn't real.

LETHAL DECISION. Deacon John Flanigan protests outside St. Louis University College Church on Jan. 28.
Signs Of the Times

When the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on the constitutionality of the executions by lethal injection in Oklahoma, its ruling will probably not be a tipping point toward the elimination of capital punishment in the United States, but some experts say it could be the beginning of the end of this pract

Cardinal Reinhard Marx in Münster, March 12, 2014.
Synod on the Family
Luke HansenFebruary 04, 2015

Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of the Diocese of Munich and Freising, is head of the German bishops’ conference, a member of the Council of Cardinals that advises Pope Francis on church governance, coordinator of the Vatican’s Council for the Economy and author of Das Kapital: A Plea

Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’ConnellFebruary 04, 2015

Mandated by the cardinals in the pre-conclave meetings to reform the Roman Curia, Pope Francis is taking his task very seriously and moving in a more radical direction than anyone had expected. His aim is not simply structural reform of the Vatican offices, though that is part of it; his primary goa