Of Many Things
What makes a journal of opinion?
Why we publish opinions you probably won’t agree with.
Your Take
How much money do you donate to your parish each week?
Irene Woodard of Camp Hill, Pa., described tithing as an expression of her faith.
The Letters
This editorial is honest, fair and practical.
Editorials
The Editors: Religious liberty is not just for Christians
President Trump has repeatedly and egregiously disparaged Muslims in ways that contradict his own State Department’s purported promotion of religious protections.
The Editors: The unborn and the condemned have the same right to life
The unborn and the condemned have the same right to life, and all citizens, especially Catholics, have a duty to defend that right.
Short Take
Is there another way to address the migration crisis?
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is a holistic approach that treats people with kindness and also recognizes economic opportunity.
Dispatches
Sister Helen Prejean’s ‘happy day’ as Pope Francis revises teaching on the death penalty
“The huge thing,” she said, is the recognition by the church of “the inviolable dignity even of guilty people who have done terrible crimes.”
Catholic leaders react to McCarrick resignation from College of Cardinals
When allegations first surfaced regarding then-Cardinal McCarrick last month, some church officials called for new regulations and policies that apply to charges of misconduct and mismanagement against bishops. But in his letter, Bishop Scharfenberger said such changes alone will not be enough to address the church’s failings.
In Britain, breaking up is hard to do
Each day brings not only further confusion but also growing demands for a “people’s vote”: a second referendum on E.U. membership or at least a plebiscite on whatever exit deal, if any, this hapless government manages to negotiate.
What is behind America’s changing views on immigration?
A growing number of Americans are open to increases in legal immigration, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Features
The uncommon faith of a country decimated by Boko Haram
The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has decimated villages in northern Nigeria, but Catholic parishioners remain faithful and courageous.
A Libertarian Case for the Common Good
Economic freedom can be morally, not just materially, empowering.
Faith in Focus
How you can help parents struggling with young children at Mass
If you are a young mom or dad, struggling with your kids at church: Take heart. You are not alone.
Vantage Point
What makes a good deacon?
A man pursuing the diaconate must see his desire to serve as a true vocation.
Ideas
How Flannery O’Connor found her art—and her God—in letters
Letter writing is a genre O’Connor would master after she was diagnosed with lupus and exiled to her mother’s farm.
Books
Review: Paul Hanly Furfey, the revolutionary priest
A much-needed biography of Paul Hanly Furfey (1896-1992): priest, sociologist and urban revolutionary theorist.
Review: Egypt’s revolution, undone
What happened to Egypt’s popular uprising?
Review: Can Mexican-Americans find a home in the United States?
A memoir that includes historical analysis as well as biographical narrative tells the tale of four Mexican-Americans unsure if they belong any longer in their adopted country.
The otherworldly science fiction of China’s Cixin Liu
Cixin Liu’s “Remembrance of Earth’s Past” trilogy, a series of science-fiction novels first published in China a decade ago, has been called “the Chinese Star Wars.”
Film
Review: ‘Sorry to Bother You’ is a satirical look into what it means to be black in corporate America
In “Sorry to Bother You,” the system’s greatest threat—literal ownership of your time and person—is also its promise of relief.
Television
“Queer Eye,” “Terrace House” and a kinder, gentler reality TV
Rather than provoking derision, these shows inspire a sense of empathy, a broadening of horizons.
Poetry
The Sphinx
Her joy lashed me. I felt my every edge whittled.
The Word
Does our heart reflect God’s heart?
The purpose of biblical law was to train the human heart in divine wisdom.
How does Jesus call you to be more like him?
Jesus challenged his listeners to think beyond food; it is the spirit that gives life.
Last Take
The Jesuit and the Shot Heard ’Round the World
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, while riding in a limousine through Sarajevo on June 28, 1914.
Faith
Does our heart reflect God’s heart?
The purpose of biblical law was to train the human heart in divine wisdom.
How does Jesus call you to be more like him?
Jesus challenged his listeners to think beyond food; it is the spirit that gives life.
What makes a good deacon?
A man pursuing the diaconate must see his desire to serve as a true vocation.
The uncommon faith of a country decimated by Boko Haram
The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has decimated villages in northern Nigeria, but Catholic parishioners remain faithful and courageous.
The Editors: The unborn and the condemned have the same right to life
The unborn and the condemned have the same right to life, and all citizens, especially Catholics, have a duty to defend that right.
How much money do you donate to your parish each week?
Irene Woodard of Camp Hill, Pa., described tithing as an expression of her faith.
Sister Helen Prejean’s ‘happy day’ as Pope Francis revises teaching on the death penalty
“The huge thing,” she said, is the recognition by the church of “the inviolable dignity even of guilty people who have done terrible crimes.”
Catholic leaders react to McCarrick resignation from College of Cardinals
When allegations first surfaced regarding then-Cardinal McCarrick last month, some church officials called for new regulations and policies that apply to charges of misconduct and mismanagement against bishops. But in his letter, Bishop Scharfenberger said such changes alone will not be enough to address the church’s failings.
How you can help parents struggling with young children at Mass
If you are a young mom or dad, struggling with your kids at church: Take heart. You are not alone.
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This editorial is honest, fair and practical.
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