Out of Palestine: Solidarity with a displaced people
Solidarity with a displaced people
The Life of Palestinan Christians
A slideshow of families and believers living in the West Bank
The Littlest Way of Lent
For two or three consecutive years in grade school I got a handout at the beginning of Lent. It was a millionth-generation chart of sorts, handdrawn by someone in the 1970s, most likely. It had little pictures of eggs and jellybeans with little hand-written suggestions in them. The idea was that you
Peer Pressure: A new Catholic wonders how to be pro-life.
A new Catholic wonders how to be pro-life.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Running alone helped me pray; running with a companion helped form friendships that endure to today.
Letters
Letters
A Terrible Irony Is Born In “The Ethical Traveler,” by Tim Padgett (1/30), there is a terrible irony. The author’s calls to abstain from condescension are themselves thoroughly condescending. His pedantic assertions fail to reach beyond the same tired narrative that everyone who ha
Editorials
A War Worth Fighting
Poverty has been allowed to molder in America's cultural basement.
Faith in Focus
Children of God
Keeping kids Catholic
Books
Losing Quintana
Joan Didion ponders her daughter's life in spare prose that is at once insightful and depressing.
Youthful Indiscretions
Julian Barnes’s new novel is a philosophical mystery that morphs into a morality tale.
Non-Trivial Pursuits
Sidney Callahan on the drama of human happiness
Film
His Catholic Conscience: Sin and grace in the work of Martin Scorsese
Sin and grace in the work of Martin Scorsese
Theater
Stage Sister: My Saturday morning with Catherine of Siena
My Saturday morning with Catherine of Siena
Poetry
The Physics of Attention
First comes the sitting. You should be relaxed
The Word
A Faith That Binds Us
Second Sunday of Lent (B), March 4, 2012
Catholic Book Club
February Selection
Nefas literally ldquo unspeakable rdquo is a Latin word for evil It is a heavy word weightier than malum the term for a garden-variety moral wrongdoing It is an offense against the sacred sacrilege in the sense of a ritual violation but even more in the sense of a violation of the divine
Columns
A Broken System
Our presidential selection process is a civic and moral train wreck.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Whither Syria?; Transparent and Accountable; Help From Our Friends
Signs Of the Times
Bishops Say No to Accommodation On Contraceptive Services
The bishops now argue that an exemption should include any employer who finds the mandated coverage morally objectionable.
Carnage Continues in Homs
“We have seen escalating violence, brutal crackdowns and tremendous suffering by the Syrian people,” said U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Vatican Suit Dropped
A federal court in Mississippi on Feb. 2 dismissed a 10-year-old lawsuit accusing the Vatican of complicity in a scheme to bilk insurance companies for more than $200 million.
Anti-Poverty Efforts Should Continue
“The economy is still leaving too many people without work,” wrote Bishop Stephen E. Blaire in a letter to Congress.
Corruption Charges ‘Unfounded’
Vatican officials dismissed as baseless the accusations of “corruption and abuse of power” made by the archbishop who is now apostolic nuncio to the United States.
News Briefs
Archbishop Murilo Krieger of Salvador, Brazil, is mediating a military police officer strike that has caused havoc and left at least 95 people dead in Bahia State. • The Irish government has decided to cut special grants to Irish families meant to cover the cost of first Communion and confirmat
Politics
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Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts