Wonders of the Universe: New scientific discoveries and old truths
New scientific discoveries and old truths
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Jonathan Haidt’s book The Righteous Mind is addressed to our national discontent.
Letters
Letters
Walk the Walk Re “Engaging the Spirituals” (3/26) by Drew Christiansen, S.J.: Many of my students are among the “spirituals”—“recovering Catholics” who are exploring world religions as a source for understanding their own spirituality It is not that the chur
Editorials
‘Stand Your Ground’
From April 2012: ‘Rational gun control might save the lives of future Trayvon Martins of every race and age.’
Faith in Focus
The Waiting: A student discerns a call to religious life.
A reflection for National Vocation Awareness Week from a student discerning the call to religious life.
Books
Celestine’s Prophecy
The pope who quit
Street Signs
Alan Shapiro’s new book of poetry is accessible, engaging and playful.
The Worker’s Tale
Essays from Los Angeles’ Skid Row
Film
Vocation Crisis: ‘Habemus Papam,’ an Italian satire
‘Habemus Papam,’ an Italian satire
Confessions of a Teenage Mind: ‘Blue Like Jazz’ offers an evangelical coming of age story
‘Blue Like Jazz’ offers an evangelical coming of age story
Television
Elvis Who?: Why Dolores Hart left Hollywood behind
Why Dolores Hart left Hollywood behind
Poetry
The Lonely Place Apart
When you think of the place,
The Word
Where You Belong
Fourth Sunday of Easter (B), April 29, 2012
Demanding but Constant Love
Third Sunday of Easter (B), April 22, 2012
Catholic Book Club
April Selection
Marilynne Robinson is best known for her first two novels, Housekeeping and Gilead, which appeared 20 years apart. Reviews of Gilead (2004) were rapturous, yet readers sometimes wondered: what took so long? Robinson’s latest collection of essays, When I Was a Child I Read Books, offers a satisfying answer. The book reveals an agile mind…
Columns
Early Spring
We know the rhythm of it: the pain of crucifixion, the light and peace of resurrection.
Current Comment
Current Comment
A Doctor for Development; Latinos on the Move; Round and Round We Go
Signs Of the Times
Pope Benedict XVI, Our Man in Havana
Pope Benedict XVI’s brief visit to Latin America ended in Cuba after a private meeting with the aging former President Fidel Castro.
Federal Court Rules Against Contract Exception for Conference
A federal judge ruled that the terms of a Department of Health and Human Services contract constituted a violation of the First Amendment’s establishment clause.
Appeal for Africa
Caritas Internationalis is launching an appeal for a preventive strike on hunger in West Africa’s Sahel region.
Amicus on Immigration
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Arizona v. United States.
Mixed Messages to Immigrants
Cardinal Mahony said the United States as a nation has been sending “two clear messages at the same time: ‘no trespassing’ and ‘help wanted.'”
News Briefs
More than 40,000 people from 41 countries gathered in Anaheim, Calif., for the annual Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts