Foolishness!: Nonbelievers challenge Christians to take faith seriously.
Psalms 14 and 53 both open with the statement: “Fools say in their hearts, ‘There is no God.’” Whatever this may tell us about unbelief in ancient Hebrew society, today it is not only, or predominantly, fools who are saying this. And they do not restrict their utterances to t
The Age of Skepticism: The challenge of relevance in a quickly changing culture
The challenge of relevance in a quickly changing culture
This Little Light: Strategies for the new evangelization from the Synod of Bishops
The Synod of Bishops brought the church a new perspective and comprehensive strategy for the new evangelization. Even though there were many cautions at the synod about not making evangelization into a program, the overall thrust of the synod discussion pushed toward a very different, and potentiall
Letters
Letters
Liberation ApproachAs a lay missionary in western Honduras, I’m grateful for “Still ‘Presente’?” by David Golemboski (1/21), especially for the emphasis on economic issues in Central America. The economic issues are harder for U.S. Catholics to deal with, especially the
Editorials
After the Boom
America’s miraculous boom in fossil fuel should prove a blessing.
Faith in Focus
Coming Home: The liberation I found at L’Arche
I remember exactly where I was standing. It was in a small hallway at a L’Arche home in Washington, D.C., when I met my friend and housemate Pedro. At the time, I was visiting L’Arche for a series of interviews. I had not yet received an official job offer, but even so, I knew that…
Books
Inventing the Future
Each invention and new research into technological possibilities has its own story and we can now add to the best of them the latest and probably most compelling one of our time It is told in the book The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner a history of the Bell Telephone Laboratories mdash or Bell Labs
Early Christians Were Rich?
Peter Brown looks religious giving in early Christian society.
Excavating America
From Jill Lepore, historical excavations of our political traditions
Film
The Hunted and the Haunted: Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is a masterpiece of ambiguity.
Poetry
Procula’s Tears: Mt 27:19
The city suffocates with the smellOf hemp, soaked in blood, everywhere.Hour after hour after hour she tossesFrom one nightmare to another.Her bed sheets, once silveredWith the scent of nard, taste of gall.She dreams she sees her husband, the prefectOf equivocation, leaning over the porticoTrying to
The Word
Turn Back to God
Lent is a time to prepare for spiritual transformation whether this will be signified by the sacraments of initiation at the Easter Vigil or by other rites and signs of conversion But in order to prepare for transformation one must turn back to God This is not easy and those who have turned back
Columns
Jesus, by the Book
Paying attention to the “Jesus of history” and the “Christ of faith.”
Current Comment
Forty Years Hence
The pro-life movement must carefully assess the social and political realities it faces.
Signs Of the Times
News Briefs
In a recently released letter sent last Advent, Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, vice president of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei,” advised members of the Society of St. Pius X “to abandon the harsh and counterproductive rhetoric that has emerged over the past years.&rdquo
Sexual Slavery: A Not-So-Super Side of the Super Bowl
Globally there are between 100,000 and 250,000 children who are victims of sex trafficking.
‘Life Windows’ Controversy
An influential U.N. committee charges that the windows violate children’s rights.
Redemptorist Regrets
The head of the Redemptorist fathers in Rome said he deeply regrets the actions of an Irish member of the order who accused the Vatican of subjecting him to “frightening procedures reminiscent of the Inquisition.” Michael Brehl, the Redemptorist order’s superior general, confirmed
New School Model
Visiting a Catholic grade school in Philadelphia on Jan. 18, Pennsylvania’s Gov. Tom Corbett lauded a new educational model for Catholic schools in the city. Independence Mission Schools is a management organization for 16 independent Catholic elementary schools located in mostly poor city nei
Pope: ‘Use Media Well’
Social media need to promote more kindness than bluster and division, the pope said.
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