Of Many Things
America Jeopardy! 2018: Answers, er, Questions
The Answers, er, Questions for America Jeopardy 2018.
Letters
The Letters
A careful study of history can certainly go a long way toward understanding the present, but it is useless to justify the present. The moral challenge concerns the next choice we make, not the last.
Your Take
How do you practice your faith over the summer?
We asked readers how they find God and upkeep their faith over summer.
Editorials
The Editors: We need laws that defend the right to vote.
Stretching voter regulation powers to the limit is contrary to the spirit of a democracy.
The Editors: Anyone who recognizes the humanity of the unborn should support the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh.
The prospect of reversing Roe increases the stakes in this nomination battle.
Short Take
Catholic teaching has space for self-driving cars
The protection of human life is paramount in Catholic teaching, and it is the greatest argument for autonomous driving technology.
Dispatches
Infographic: ‘Humanae Vitae’ anniversary sees an emphasis on Natural Family Planning in the church
Though most Catholics say they use artificial contraception, the church is finding a receptive audience for Natural Family Planning programs.
Pope Francis tells new cardinals the only credible form of authority is to serve
Pope Francis used strong words that can be read both as an admonition and guidance for the entire college of cardinals.
Death toll from a volcano eruption in Guatemala may far exceed the official count
The Fuego volcano eruption destroyed properties recently sold to indigenous Guatemalans for subsistence farming.
Why a janitor saved the rosaries confiscated at the Mexican border
Photographer Tom Kiefer took a job at U.S. Customs and was horrified to discover personal items in the trash. He decided to show them to the world.
There were 69 million refugees last year. What is being done to help them?
A record 68.5 million people had been driven from their homes across the world at the end of 2017. That total was 2.9 million more than at the end of 2016.
Features
Some of Europe’s top tourist destinations are homes to anti-Semitic imagery. What should be done?
Darker layering shapes the tourist experience in ways that are not always apparent or transparent.
50 years after “Humanae Vitae,” we still buy into the myth of the self-made man
It is not simply children whom we seek to design but our own selves.
Faith in Focus
What we have learned 10 years after Postville, the largest immigration raid in U.S. history
At the time, it was the largest immigration raid in U.S. history.
Vantage Point
Why do Catholic schools require uniforms?
An argument against the fashion requirements of Catholic schools
Ideas
The restless soul of Anthony Burgess
Though ‘lapsed,’ the prolific author was obsessed with the church.
His parents fell for a spiritual guru. In “Dear Franklin Jones,” he wants to find out why.
In “Dear Franklin Jones,” Jonathan Hirsch sets out to answer some questions about his family.
Books
Review: The Devil wears yoga pants
The author of “The Devil Wears Prada” writes a sequel of sorts.
Can women really “have it all”? A Catholic mom’s fresh take
Neither a self-help book nor a how-to manual, One Beautiful Dream nonetheless inspires self-reflection and offers concrete, practical lessons embedded within colorful stories and memorable scenes.
Review: A Trappist monk tells of a life worth living
A quiet life centered on the rhythms of prayer, work and play turns out to be…rather worth it.
Review: Elizabeth Johnson on how to atone for Anselm
“Creation and the Cross” is an investigation of the relationship between the created world and the work of salvation. Is the world—indeed, the entire universe—merely the stage on which the human relationship with God plays out, or can we speak of cosmic redemption as well as the redemption of human beings?
Film
Review: ‘Generation Wealth’ embraces our materialist obsessions
Lauren Greenfield’s new documentary says little about spiritual emptiness and the desperate ways in which people try to fill it.
Poetry
I’m Never Told of Family Funerals
Surely now, the Blessed Virgin would cure Aunt Rose of polio.
The Word
Even when you feel inadequate, Christ is enough.
The task of redemption is Christ’s, not ours. His grace will fulfill the work.
How has the “bread of life” strengthened you?
The crowd confused the symbol with the reality
Last Take
Would Jesus eat with Sarah Sanders?
The way Jesus used table fellowship in the Gospels was morally transformative—but by inclusion, not by exclusion.
Faith
Infographic: ‘Humanae Vitae’ anniversary sees an emphasis on Natural Family Planning in the church
Though most Catholics say they use artificial contraception, the church is finding a receptive audience for Natural Family Planning programs.
How do you practice your faith over the summer?
We asked readers how they find God and upkeep their faith over summer.
Even when you feel inadequate, Christ is enough.
The task of redemption is Christ’s, not ours. His grace will fulfill the work.
How has the “bread of life” strengthened you?
The crowd confused the symbol with the reality
Pope Francis tells new cardinals the only credible form of authority is to serve
Pope Francis used strong words that can be read both as an admonition and guidance for the entire college of cardinals.
What we have learned 10 years after Postville, the largest immigration raid in U.S. history
At the time, it was the largest immigration raid in U.S. history.
Why do Catholic schools require uniforms?
An argument against the fashion requirements of Catholic schools
Magazine
The Letters
A careful study of history can certainly go a long way toward understanding the present, but it is useless to justify the present. The moral challenge concerns the next choice we make, not the last.
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts