The Rising Revisited: In Ireland, the past is still painfully present.
Where do you begin the story of the border that divides Ireland?
Pope Francis’ theology begins with the people’s faith.
Pope Francis’ theology begins with the people’s faith.
Of Many Things
One year after Freddy Gray’s death, welcome help comes from the private sector for Baltimore
Freddie Gray died one year ago. The 25-year-old African-American man had been arrested for possessing what the Baltimore Police Department described as an illegal switchblade. The officers put him in handcuffs, locked him in the back of a police transport van and took him for what The Baltimore Sun
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Rock the Foundations“‘Ghetto Gospel,’” by Alex Nava (4/4), is powerfully illuminating. I have long loved artists like B. B. King and Marvin Gaye, whose beautiful song during the Vietnam era claimed, “We can rock the world’s foundation/ Everybody together, together
Editorials
Family Time
“The Joy of Love” reaffirms teachings on marriage while facing today’s complicated reality.
Short Take
Imposing Independence: Questioning the moral authority of the Easter Rising
Catholic social thought has much to say about the issues surrounding the Rising.
Faith in Focus
The Life Of Mae: Finding love in an unexpected place
I think of a line in Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov: “And if two of you are together, then there is a whole world, a world of living love.”
Ideas
The Sacred Stage: Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death
In 2016, the cup of bardolatry runneth over.
Poetry
Looking for justice in poetry: America’s spring poetry review
Social movements need great art.
The Word
Gospel: The Peace of Christ
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you”
Current Comment
Supreme Court ruling on voting representation brings more questions
The decision raises rather than resolves the question of who has the right to be heard.
Editors: Panama Papers demonstrate need revisit U.S. tax policies
On tax evasion and hidden wealth, we are awash in a “sea of criminality.”
Women are more devout than men according to a new Pew report
The report found that the gender gap is most prevalent among Christians.
Of Other Things
Digital Habits of Mind
Reading for even just 20 minutes helps quiet my mind.
Signs Of the Times
Francis Urges Church to Reach Out, Accompany Contemporary Families
In his post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the family, “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), Pope Francis not only strongly affirms the traditional Christian ideal of marriage; he also opens doors to the progressive integration into the life of the church of those Catholic
A Capitalist Mission in Cuba
The Catholic Church is vying with Communism by teaching Cubans capitalism.
Ending Modern Slavery
At a conference sponsored by the Holy See Mission to the United Nations, the message was clear: ending human trafficking and all forms of modern slavery is within global reach, but the complete abolition of these contemporary scourges remains frustrated by a lack of leadership, cross-border coordina
Suicide Alert
On a number of Native American reservations the suicide rate is unusually high. That is especially true on the Rosebud Reservation in south central South Dakota. In 2007—at the height of an ongoing suicide epidemic—the number of deaths by suicide on Rosebud was roughly 13 times the natio
Brother in Waiting
The Indian government might have dispelled rumors of the alleged Good Friday crucifixion of the Salesian priest Thomas Uzhunnalil, but his brother, Mathew, still worries. “I am waiting for clear good news,” said Uzhunnalil, 73. Since his brother was kidnapped in Aden, Yemen, Uzhunnalil h
Bishops React: ‘Not Reform of the Rules, Reform of the Church’
Commenting on the apostolic exhortation during a press discussion a few hours after its formal release on April 8, Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, N.Y., chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, said, “Amoris Laetitia” was focused
News Briefs
Lizzy Myers of Mansfield, Ohio, a 5-year-old girl who has a disease that is gradually rendering her blind and deaf, met the pope as part of her parents’ “visual bucket list,” during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on April 6. • The relics of St.
Vatican Dispatch
Will Indonesia be Pope Francis’ next Asian trip?
Pope Francis is on record as saying that the future of the church is in Asia.
Washington Front
Our Political Mandate
Six months ago Pope Francis told Congress, “You are called to defend and preserve the dignity of your fellow citizens in the tireless and demanding pursuit of the common good, for this is the chief aim of all politics.” I love politics, but I hate much of what passes for politics today.
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