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Longing for Communion

July 18-25, 2016

Vol. 215 / No. 2

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TABLE SERVICE. Pope Francis visits the Il Chicco community, part of the L’Arche movement, in Ciampino, Italy.
Faith Faith in Focus
Dani ClarkJuly 07, 2016

“Our eyes may be for judging, but our hearts are for knowing.”

A Grim Tally. Gun control activists rally in front of the White House in Washington on Jan. 4. The next day, President Barack Obama announced executive actions to reduce gun violence.
Vantage Point

A look at America's coverage on gun violence, from the 1960s to present day.

IMAGINE THIS. In Disney's "The BFG", directed by Steven Spielberg, a precocious 10-year-old girl from London named Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) befriends the BFG (Oscar winner Mark Rylance).
Ideas
Anna KeatingJuly 01, 2016

Roald Dahl didn’t leave out the awful bits in his stories, and children love him for it.

Books
The EditorsJuly 07, 2016

When my brother Dave and I were very young our father, a journalist who, probably because he couldn’t afford college, had gone right into newspaper work when he returned from World War I, would grow agitated when he saw us reading comic books. I remember him saying he had read all of Dickens a

Arts & Culture Poetry
Sofia M. StarnesJuly 07, 2016

Come, let me strain the raspberriestonight, stir the sauce—glassy the sugar,not too tart—pour it, wipe up the crimsonislands and returnto where I learned the revenueof taste. Taste that’s acquired an appetitefor place, rich with accrued mobilities:sun on the slender sill at early d

The Word
John W. MartensJuly 07, 2016

“Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.”

Faith The Word
John W. MartensJuly 07, 2016

There is a reality to which God has called us that is not dependent upon our goods but on the preparation of our souls.