Of Many Things
Thinking about joining the Jesuits? Stop sitting on the fence and try it out.
I know this is generally not O.K. to do, writing a whole article about joining the Jesuits.
Letters
The Letters
Doing what we can to bring people together, to build community and to foster the sense of belonging of which Father Michael Rozier speaks is hugely important if we are to care for the whole person.
Your Take
How does your parish keep you informed?
Respondents to a new America poll said overwhelmingly that their parishes kept them up-to-date with paper bulletins (97 percent) and announcements at Mass (91 percent).
Editorials
The Editors: We need to fast-track housing near public transit
City planners are increasingly alarmed by two trends: a growing shortage of affordable housing and a nationwide decline in public transit ridership.
The Editors: The Supreme Court punted on the wedding cake case—and gave the country an opportunity
This decision offers Catholics—and indeed all Americans—a welcome opportunity to step away from the trenches of the culture war.
Short Take
Meet the Hawaiian women leading the fight against a $1.4 billion telescope on a sacred mountain
The Thirty Meter Telescope would cover six acres on Mauna Kea, one of the most sacred places in Hawaii, and women are leading the resistance.
Dispatches
Political violence is disrupting Mexico’s elections
At least 102 candidates and political workers have been murdered since September.
Puerto Rico death toll could be 70 times higher than originally reported, study says
A new study from The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the actual number of people who died in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria is close to 5,000.
Can the church in Nigeria stop the violence between herders and farmers?
Benue State is in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. This region, a hotbed of sectarian unrest, has suffered particularly because of clashes between largely Muslim Fulani cattle herders and mostly Christian farming communities.
As the Earth warms, mosquitoes become a social justice issue. Here’s how.
Catholic health care providers say when those places lack the resources to cope, climate change and mosquito-borne illnesses become issues of social justice.
Features
Canadian Catholics grapple with a history of “whitewashing” indigenous children
Canada has begun truth-seeking and reconciliation, and the Sisters of Charity in Nova Scotia are confronting their order’s role in a racist educational system.
Alfie’s last days: a little boy’s life and death stoked a furious debate that will not soon end
End-of-life disputes can be complicated and nuanced and require a sober understanding of the underlying medical technicalities and ethical concerns.
Faith in Focus
How can we be friends with God if we don’t have time for one another?
Lessons in friendship from St. Francis de Sales
Ideas
‘The Incredibles’ and the Myth of the Ideal Family
The truth is there is no ideal family.
Who deserves to be healthy? The prosperity gospel according to Goop
The prosperity gospel offers an enticing invitation: If you work hard enough, if you have enough faith, you’ll get there. All the good things in your life, you earned.
Books
Review: A posthumous gift from William Trevor
Writer William Trevor never shied away from something like the Gothic, the nearly horrific side of everything from romantic passion to parenthood.
Far from Paradise: a soldier’s story of the Iraq war
The true story of a young recruit who takes on three deployments in Iraq over five years.
How Oscar Romero’s theology sheds new insights on his life
Through his spiritual commitment to his people, Romero gradually learned in a new way the deep meanings of Christian faith and acted them out in our turbulent world.
Seymour Hersh’s recipe for strong investigative reporting still works.
Reviewing Seymour Hersh’s memoir, “Reporter.”
Music
What Childish Gambino and Flannery O’Connor have in common
Gambino’s new video for ‘This is America’ is an experience of radical interruption, one that O’Connor would have appreciated.
Poetry
Only Grain and Goats
In Knossos there was no way to write love
The Word
When has Christ lifted you from dread?
God never intended the world to be a place of anxiety
How do the long-term struggles in your life deepen your faith?
We need to act on Jesus’ liberating word if we are to experience our freedom
Last Take
The pope and a cardinal show Catholics the right way to call someone out
Righteous call-outs should be patterned after Cardinal O’Malley’s rebuke of Pope Francis on sex abuse.
Faith
How does your parish keep you informed?
Respondents to a new America poll said overwhelmingly that their parishes kept them up-to-date with paper bulletins (97 percent) and announcements at Mass (91 percent).
When has Christ lifted you from dread?
God never intended the world to be a place of anxiety
How do the long-term struggles in your life deepen your faith?
We need to act on Jesus’ liberating word if we are to experience our freedom
How can we be friends with God if we don’t have time for one another?
Lessons in friendship from St. Francis de Sales
Thinking about joining the Jesuits? Stop sitting on the fence and try it out.
I know this is generally not O.K. to do, writing a whole article about joining the Jesuits.
Magazine
The Letters
Doing what we can to bring people together, to build community and to foster the sense of belonging of which Father Michael Rozier speaks is hugely important if we are to care for the whole person.
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