Jesuit School Spotlight
The Jesuit High School in Florida that welcomed 22 teenagers into the Catholic church this year.
The sacraments took place within two socially distanced school Masses on May 13 and 14.
Of Many Things
We’re going to publish things you disagree with. It’s what a Catholic magazine should do.
To overcome polarization and ideological partisanship—both in the church and in the culture—requires attention to diverse opinions and a variety of perspectives. America’s inclusive approach is an attempt to do just that.
Your Take
Forum: 7 Black and Latino Catholics respond to the conviction of Derek Chauvin
Gloria Purvis, the Rev. Bryan N. Massingale, MT Dávila, Anthea Butler, Kim Harris, Shannen Dee Williams and Jeremy V. Cruz share their reactions to the murder conviction of Derek Chauvin.
Editorials
The Editors: Refugee resettlement has a political cost. It is still worth paying.
Though an about-face by the Biden administration brought welcome news to advocates for refugee resettlement, the process raised concerns about the political calculus at work.
Short Take
The free market alone will not vaccinate the world.
Whether as an act of solidarity or as an act of self-protection, the United States should give away 20 percent of its vaccines.
Dispatches
Canada’s bishops withheld aid from groups they thought had ties to abortion. Repairing relationships is proving difficult.
Canada’s bishops remain committed to the success of Development and Peace “as a Canadian, Catholic organization in communion with the Bishops and the universal Church”
As the Covid-19 crisis continues, Brazil’s elderly rely on the church’s pastoral outreach
The Pastoral da Pessoa Idosa (“Pastoral Care for Elderly Persons”) reaches 170,000 seniors all over Brazil. The efforts and interventions of the ministry’s workers are built around monthly home visits.
Rich countries could prevent the next India. Will they?
The speed and virulence of the Covid-19 outbreak in India have been among its most shocking aspects. Could an outbreak as ferocious happen somewhere else?
The African priests brewing beer (and auctioning pigs) to keep their churches afloat amid Covid-19 crisis
Poverty is profound around with “hungry people…knocking at the parish gates” on a daily basis because of Covid-19.
The Nuns are going to the border
U.S. sisters were called to the border to assist asylum seekers. They (obviously) came through.
Features
The Crisis in Catholic Theology
How can the discipline of theology keep its footing in Catholic colleges and universities facing uncertain futures?
Conversion therapy is still happening in Catholic spaces—and its effects on L.G.B.T. people can be devastating
Although only a small minority of L.G.B.T. Catholics will ever seek conversion therapy, the assumptions underlying that therapy often influence the message many gay Catholics hear in the confessional and from friends and mentors.
Faith and Reason
Theology departments can’t just focus on academics. Spiritual and moral formation are needed, too.
Since theological study has moved from the seminary to the university, departments of theology must find creative ways to develop intellectual scholarship within lives of prayer and service.
Theology has no future if students can’t afford to study it.
Catholic institutions can affirm theology’s place by means of concrete hiring practices.
The liberal/conservative divide is hurting theology departments. The way forward won’t be popular.
Transcending the parochial is vital for retaining Catholic identity.
Theology will have no future if it does not remain a distinct discipline.
The development of historical theology highlights a risk in interdisciplinary theology: If it loses the spirit of theology, it takes on the shape of another discipline.
Bishop McElroy: The Eucharist is being weaponized for political ends. This must not happen.
The proposal to exclude pro-choice Catholic politicians from the Eucharist will bring tremendously destructive consequences—not because of what it says about abortion, but because of what it says about the Eucharist.
Prince Albert of Monaco: Together we can save our common home
The evidence of severe climate change is everywhere; but we still have the opportunity to reinvent ourselves, to stimulate the creation of new activities, thanks to innovative and sustainable solutions, both for nature and for humankind.
Faith in Focus
As a delivery room nurse, I knew how to celebrate with new parents. But God taught me how to grieve with them, too
Working in labor and delivery can be a beautiful job. But there are trying times too.
My father’s death was his final act of love
My dad had always been a God-like figure to me.
Ideas
Fifty years ago, my father leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times. It changed his life — and mine.
Half a century later, Robert Ellsberg looks back on his father’s famous release of the Pentagon Papers—and the consequences of that decision for his father, for him and for the nation.
Books
Review: Jewish leaders see providence in Christianity, too.
The decades since the Second Vatican Council and the declaration “Nostra Aetate” have seen much fruit in the form of Jewish-Christian collaboration and dialogue.
Review: The unexpected collaboration between President Kennedy and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
In ‘The Last Brahmin,’ Luke Nichter presents Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. as a man who, from cradle to grave, loved his family and his country, the ideals of both of which he tried to live up to his entire life.
Review: The rituals of a Brooklyn Catholic community
‘Lifeblood of the Parish’ is an ethnographic look at Italian-American communal rituals in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
A New Orleans jazz hall and its history in the fight for Black freedom
In post-Civil War New Orleans, Creole leaders won elections and oversaw the desegregation of public schools, a short-lived experiment destroyed after Reconstruction.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun’ is a haunting tale of love, loss and…a robot.
The robotic narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel takes us into a dystopian U.S. future.
Poetry
The 2021 Foley Poetry Contest Winner: ‘Raising Mothers’
the sense of her knowing I have long been motherless itself a mother to me
The Word
The connection between faith and healing
Today’s stories offer important reminders of the power of faith to overcome even the most difficult of circumstances.
Why are you terrified? Jesus asks.
We also get a behind-the-scenes perspective of Jesus’ interaction with the disciples.
Jesus, an ecological storyteller, teaches us that the kingdom of God is interdependent
We get a behind-the-scenes perspective of Jesus’ interaction with the disciples.
Encountering God when you cannot receive the Eucharist
As we examine today’s readings, we should be mindful of the significance of the Eucharist as a means to encounter God.
Last Take
James Martin on Daniel Berrigan: A Jesuit for the long haul
Dan may have been a “radical,” but he was also a man committed to his Jesuit vows.
Faith
The connection between faith and healing
Today’s stories offer important reminders of the power of faith to overcome even the most difficult of circumstances.
Why are you terrified? Jesus asks.
We also get a behind-the-scenes perspective of Jesus’ interaction with the disciples.
Jesus, an ecological storyteller, teaches us that the kingdom of God is interdependent
We get a behind-the-scenes perspective of Jesus’ interaction with the disciples.
Encountering God when you cannot receive the Eucharist
As we examine today’s readings, we should be mindful of the significance of the Eucharist as a means to encounter God.
The Jesuit High School in Florida that welcomed 22 teenagers into the Catholic church this year.
The sacraments took place within two socially distanced school Masses on May 13 and 14.
As a delivery room nurse, I knew how to celebrate with new parents. But God taught me how to grieve with them, too
Working in labor and delivery can be a beautiful job. But there are trying times too.
My father’s death was his final act of love
My dad had always been a God-like figure to me.
We’re going to publish things you disagree with. It’s what a Catholic magazine should do.
To overcome polarization and ideological partisanship—both in the church and in the culture—requires attention to diverse opinions and a variety of perspectives. America’s inclusive approach is an attempt to do just that.
Canada’s bishops withheld aid from groups they thought had ties to abortion. Repairing relationships is proving difficult.
Canada’s bishops remain committed to the success of Development and Peace “as a Canadian, Catholic organization in communion with the Bishops and the universal Church”
Theology departments can’t just focus on academics. Spiritual and moral formation are needed, too.
Since theological study has moved from the seminary to the university, departments of theology must find creative ways to develop intellectual scholarship within lives of prayer and service.
Theology has no future if students can’t afford to study it.
Catholic institutions can affirm theology’s place by means of concrete hiring practices.
The liberal/conservative divide is hurting theology departments. The way forward won’t be popular.
Transcending the parochial is vital for retaining Catholic identity.
Theology will have no future if it does not remain a distinct discipline.
The development of historical theology highlights a risk in interdisciplinary theology: If it loses the spirit of theology, it takes on the shape of another discipline.
The Crisis in Catholic Theology
How can the discipline of theology keep its footing in Catholic colleges and universities facing uncertain futures?
Conversion therapy is still happening in Catholic spaces—and its effects on L.G.B.T. people can be devastating
Although only a small minority of L.G.B.T. Catholics will ever seek conversion therapy, the assumptions underlying that therapy often influence the message many gay Catholics hear in the confessional and from friends and mentors.
Bishop McElroy: The Eucharist is being weaponized for political ends. This must not happen.
The proposal to exclude pro-choice Catholic politicians from the Eucharist will bring tremendously destructive consequences—not because of what it says about abortion, but because of what it says about the Eucharist.
The African priests brewing beer (and auctioning pigs) to keep their churches afloat amid Covid-19 crisis
Poverty is profound around with “hungry people…knocking at the parish gates” on a daily basis because of Covid-19.
James Martin on Daniel Berrigan: A Jesuit for the long haul
Dan may have been a “radical,” but he was also a man committed to his Jesuit vows.
Prince Albert of Monaco: Together we can save our common home
The evidence of severe climate change is everywhere; but we still have the opportunity to reinvent ourselves, to stimulate the creation of new activities, thanks to innovative and sustainable solutions, both for nature and for humankind.
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