The Future Church
Peter Drucker, writing in the Nov. 3, 2001, issue of The Economist, described a revolution that will cause a restructuring of European and American economies and cultures for much of this century. In the developed countries, the dominant factor in the next society will be something to which most peo
Profiling
Shortly after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, I went to an automobile garage and was greeted by a bearded man of Middle Eastern appearance who asked in a foreign accent how he could be of help. Rather abruptly, I was seized by a disagreeable feeling, along with the urge to say “Forget it.&r
The Case of Sufiyatu Huseini in Nigeria
On Oct. 9, 2001, an Islamic law court in the State of Sokoto in northern Nigeria ordered Safiyatu Huseini Tungar Tudu to be buried up to her head and shoulders and stoned to death. Sufiya had been found guilty of having sexual intercourse outside marriage. Her child, Adama, 8 months old at the time
Explainer
Whatever happened to limbo?
Nowhere in the current catechism is there any treatment of a belief that was part of the common teaching of the church for over 700 years.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Nearly 100,000 new books were published in the United States last year, and most of them were ignored by The New York Review of Books and the Sunday book sections of The New York Times and The Washington Post. Although these three are heavyweights in the book review business, they have space to exam
Letters
Letters
Cautionary Note
Thank you for publishing Thomas A. Shannon’s clear and concise article (2/18) about the complex moral and ethical issues surrounding attempts at human cloning to obtain stem cells for therapeutic use, and the related question of induced parthenogenic cell division of human eggs for the same purpose. This article documents the need for care…
Editorials
The Bush Doctrine
When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, the problem of the Barbary pirates was waiting for him. These Moorish privateers, outfitted in Algeria, Morocco, Tripoli and Tunis, were prowling the seas off the North African coast as their predecessors had done for two centuries. They plundered Brit
Faith in Focus
Taking It With Me: Mercy’s Grace at Work in the Public Schools
After a 24-year teaching career in Catholic education, 20 of those years with the Sisters of Mercy at Mercy High School in Baltimore, I took a big risk and leapt to the public schools. I had always wanted to round out my career with a stint in public education. My move back to my family…
Books
A Living Narrative
This is a brilliant complex and compelling analysis of emotions and their significance in personal and social life Like most philosophical writing however it is written in an academically analytical style that will limit its readership This is unfortunate and deeply ironic for Nussbaum is a ma
The God of No Return
Economics has dabbled in theology from its beginnings Two centuries ago Adam Smith the father of economics got the theological ball rolling with his assertion that prices were determined by the Invisible Hand of competition in the market Karl Marx rsquo s theory of capital was that it was a reli
Ordinary and Extraordinary
The Rev Richard P McBrien the Crowley-O rsquo Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Lives of the Saints Catholicism in this one-volume treatment provides in portable and more affordable form the quality otherwise found only in the 12-volume 1995 Burns edition of Butle
The Word
Joyful and Subversive Memory
He emptied himself, taking the form of a slave (Phil. 2:7)
Columns
Some Solace
A kindly police officer stationed at the corner of Liberty Street and Greenwich Street in downtown Manhattan warned me about ground zero. “It’s really muddy there,” he said. “And you’re wearing good shoes.” I don’t own a pair of “good” shoes, as
Faith
Whatever happened to limbo?
Nowhere in the current catechism is there any treatment of a belief that was part of the common teaching of the church for over 700 years.
Joyful and Subversive Memory
He emptied himself, taking the form of a slave (Phil. 2:7)
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Signs of the Times
Bishops Weigh in on Clerical Sexual Abuse of MinorsA number of U.S. bishops reiterated or strengthened their policies against clerical sexual abuse of minors and several removed some of their priests from ministry in the wake of a growing national controversy over the issue that began in the Archdio
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