

A Missionary People: Vatican II redefined evangelization.
Vatican II redefined evangelization.
Impulses of the Spirit: The servant church after Vatican II
The servant church after Vatican II
Opening the Windows: Why the gifts of Vatican II are still needed today
Why the gifts of Vatican II are still needed today
A New Pentecost: The council revealed John XXIII’s hope for dialogue.
The council revealed John XXIII’s hope for dialogue.
An Ongoing Renewal: How the council is still shaping the church
How the council is still shaping the church
Las Esperanzas Del Concilio Vaticano II
Uno de los acontecimientos más significativos de la historia cristiana del siglo XX, fue, sin lugar a duda, la celebración de un Concilio Ecuménico. Llamarlo simplemente “el Concilio Vaticano II” no es suficiente. La razón total, complexiva fue que se tratase de un “verdadero Concilio Ecuménico.” Por eso se trata de un acontecimiento no sólo…
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
When I finish my last full day at America on Sept. 28, it will be 10 years to the day that I arrived here.
Letters
Letters
Preventing a Holocaust I know not how it happened, but your editorial “Diplomacy and Disarma-ment” (9/24) fails to mention that Iran has threatened genocide on the Israelis not once but many times. Yet somehow the United States and Israel are found morally lacking and must “come up
Editorials
Aggiornamento 2012
Vatican II requires that the people of God continue their pilgrim journey, aware that we move in contested terrain.
Vantage Point
The Second Vatican Council was the sower. Now we are the laborers.
Reaping the harvest of Vatican II requires the ongoing efforts of all in the church who are committed to its vision of reform and renewal.
Books
Behind Closed Doors
The diaries of Yves Congar, the single most important theologian of Vatican II.
Beyond Hopeless
The story of a murderer who became a monk
A Dirty Business
Inside the global arms trade
Family Therapy
The revolution in Catholic teaching on the Jews
Film
True Believers: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’
Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’
Keeping the Faith: ‘The Virgin, the Copts and Me’
A young Egyptian journeys back to his roots in ‘The Virgin, the Copts and Me’
Poetry
Praise song for my father
What I miss now is not the dark
The Word
Wealth and Poverty
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Oct. 14, 2012
Columns
Whiskey’s Wisdom
This is the kind of loving that expects no payback, but is willing to be spent.
Faith
The Second Vatican Council was the sower. Now we are the laborers.
Reaping the harvest of Vatican II requires the ongoing efforts of all in the church who are committed to its vision of reform and renewal.
Signs Of the Times
News Briefs
About 3,000 students at Fordham University cheered as the comedian Stephen Colbert joined Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York and James Martin, S.J., in a discussion of faith, humor and spirituality.
Can’t Rely on Nukes
Archbishop Dominique Mamberti called for the creation of a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East and elsewhere to demonstrate that “global security must not rely on nuclear weapons.”
As Protests Rage in Middle East, Pope Urges Interfaith Dialogue
When Pope Benedict XVI stepped off the plane in Beirut on Sept. 14, he said he had come to Lebanon as a “pilgrim of peace.”
Pew Tracks Growing Intolerance
A new study notes an uptick on social intolerance and government restrictions on religion around the world and in the United States between 2009 and mid-2010.
Preaching Together
The potential power, but also the limits, of an ecumenical proclamation of the Gospel is likely to be a key topic during the meeting in October of the Synod of Bishops.
Christian Families Displaced in Pakistan
Demonstrators claim Pakistani officials raised funds for displaced families and offered to help resettle them but has not lived up to these commitments.






