A Lost Generation?: Fewer young women are practicing their faith: How the church can woo them back
Fewer young women are practicing their faith: How the church can woo them back
What Will You Take Up?: Suggestions for action and reflection during Lent
Suggestions for action and reflection during Lent
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
The ecumenism initiated by Vatican II is alive and well in the Eternal City.
Letters
Letters
Getting Rich by Being Good As one who has participated in socially responsible investing for a number of years, I was initially very interested, but ultimately disappointed in Thomas Healey’s “Good Returns” (1/16). While anyone rightly hopes to earn a reasonable return on a financi
Editorials
Athletes Dying Young
Sometimes the public can be shaken by a story so egregious that it shocks anyone with a moral sense.
Faith in Focus
How interfaith exploration made me a better Catholic
Our conversations, especially those about the nature of God and our relationship with God, led me to an understanding of the similarities between Islam and Catholicism. Our smiles grew wide when the words of biblical and Koranic stories about Abraham matched up almost perfectly.
Books
Elusive Sanctity
The author A. G. Mojtabai shows how nearly impossible it is to satisfy the longing for holiness.
All Is Transience
A new volume from one of America’s most revered poets
The Spiritual Hedonist
The life of Caravaggio is as starkly dramatic as the paintings he made.
Film
Madonna’s Ambition: A love story from the Material Girl
Is the Material Girl chasing artistic gravitas with her new film ‘W.E.’?
A Grocer’s Daughter: Phyllida Lloyds ‘The Iron Lady’
Although partly a biographical film about a world leader, ‘The Iron Lady’ is first the story of a woman.
Poetry
Mystery Upon Mystery
The moon rises late, long before I dream.
The Word
Into the Deep
First Sunday of Lent (B), Feb. 26, 2012
Columns
Draw Near
The spirit of the Gospel is a spirit of attraction, not coercion.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Wheels of Justice; Doubt at Davos; Just Posted
Faith
How interfaith exploration made me a better Catholic
Our conversations, especially those about the nature of God and our relationship with God, led me to an understanding of the similarities between Islam and Catholicism. Our smiles grew wide when the words of biblical and Koranic stories about Abraham matched up almost perfectly.
Signs Of the Times
Catholic M.D.’s Worry After H.H.S. Mandate
Anne Nolte, M.D., said that Catholic hospitals might have to decide whether to “practice civil disobedience.”
The Young DREAM On
Cardinal Roger Mahony hopes that today’s young people will bring about a change in immigration policy.
Sarkozy on Secularity
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France rejected calls for secular values to be enshrined in his country’s constitution.
News Briefs
Hundreds are dead after weeks of ethnic violence between the Murle and Luo Nuer communities in South Sudan’s Jonglei State.
What Are the White House and The Bishops Fighting About?
The divide between the administration and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in this renewed culture war is deep.
Creating Cardinals
After the new cardinals are created, all the “princes of the church” are scheduled to vote on the canonization of several new saints.
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts