A rite of passage: Should young people be required to do a year of service?
There is a link waiting to be forged between civilian national service and post-service higher educational benefits. If pursued, this link could help ease the burden of student debt and help students meet the out-of-reach prices of higher education.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
America Press, the publisher of America magazine, has a new name: America Media.
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‘Whole-life’ WitnessRe “The State of the Family” (Editorial, 2/9): For those of us who promote a “whole-life” policy, the need to support parents and their children is part of being pro-life. Organizations like Democrats for Life of America, Feminists for Life and
Editorials
Jailing Families
A policy that relies on detention of families is fundamentally flawed.
Faith in Focus
The Monk and Me: New habits of friendship
I met the monk, before he was a monk, on Facebook. The message icon flickered to life when an actor we both know made the connection: two writers, two creative people, two weirdoes, two Catholics. Perhaps we’d like to get acquainted? The monk back then had a different name; let’s call hi
Ideas
Podcast People: ‘Serial’ kills the radio stars
‘Serial’ kills the radio stars
Books
A Careful Quartet
‘The Liar’s Wife,’ by Mary Gordon
Keeping It Real
‘Mercy in the City,’ by Kerry Weber, and ‘The Many Sides of Peace,’ by Brayton Shanley
A Sense of Solidarity
‘Health Care as a Social Good,’ by David M. Craig
Poetry
They Build a Hogan in Coal Canyon, Arizona
You must sit down and taste. —George Herbert That morning, Gilmore and Mary Francessacrificed a lamb for us. Gilmore said,With a cool hand,I slit the throat,the lamb did not suffer. We gathered around the lambskin-draped picnic table. Direct from the open fire,we ate everyt
The Word
God’s Word for Us
There is no question about the centrality of the Ten Commandments to Judaism and subsequently to Christianity The Ten Words as the Old Testament itself calls them Ex 34 28 Dt 4 13 or Decalogue which God spoke to Moses resonate down through the centuries into our lives The Catechism of the C
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The Law and Children
In the Church’s conversation about modern family life, where’s the concern for children?
Current Comment
Current Comment
Proliferation of prenatal screening presents an ethical challenge to health care providers.
Philosopher's Notebook
On Paying Attention
At the center of the spiritual life is the simple courage to be quiet.
Signs Of the Times
Dorothy Stang 10th Anniversary
On Feb. 12, 2005, two hired gunmen killed Sister Dorothy Stang, 73, in a remote Brazilian settlement just off the Trans-Amazonian Highway. As a tireless advocate for the poor and landless in Brazil for more than three decades, the Ohio-born nun came into conflict with ruthless landowners. Three
News Briefs
Video of Pope Francis visiting with Latin American immigrants at a settlement camp near Rome on Feb. 8 became a global Internet phenomenon.• Congress should urge Israel to halt confiscation of Palestinian lands, a move that may “renew hope for a just resolution to the conflict,” Bis
Thailand’s Organic Church
Despite small numbers, Catholicism retains a special place in urban Thai society.
Notre Dame Teacher Formation Modeled on Religious Community
Maria Rodriguez is not a religious sister, but she lives and works like one. The 23-year-old San Diego native teaches third grade students in a Chicago Catholic school and lives in a house with other new schoolteachers.Rodriguez and her housemates exchange ideas about their educational ministry, pra
Ireland: Poor Showing On Child Protection
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said he would seek assurances from religious congregations operating in his diocese that they are rigidly following child protection guidelines after a fresh round of audits raised serious concerns. In a statement on Feb. 10, Archbishop Martin said it was “
Solidarity on the Sea
Pope Francis once again urged solidarity with migrants who risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe; and during his general audience on Feb. 11, he assured prayers for the victims of a deadly crossing. The pope was responding to reports on Feb. 9 that 29 migrants had died of h
At Consistory, Cardinals Sense Francis Is Getting ‘the Work’ Done
The establishment of two new congregations—the first for Laity-Family Life, the second for Charity-Justice-Peace, which includes a new office for ecology—were among the proposals for reform of the Roman Curia that were presented to the College of Cardinals on Feb. 12 at the opening sessi
The Church Visible
A Year in Vocations
How do we attract more Hispanics, especially women, into religious communities?
Vatican Dispatch
Francis and Congress
Visit shows how far America has come since anti-Catholic climate of its early history
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