The Man in the Mirror: Facing who I really am
Facing who I really am
Modern Martyrs: Thousands die for their faith each year. How should the church respond?
On the Feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe, remembering the thousands who die for their faith each year.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
The lives of the saints demonstrate that our yes is possible, even in a broken world.
Letters
Letters
Bloody Hands Re “Electoral Responsibility” (Editorial, 10/29): Thanks for continuing to muddy the waters. It has become a tradition for me to cast my ballot for president every four years by going into the voting booth and holding my nose. It is a tortured exercise. I agree that defense
Editorials
Peddling Deception
How can Lance Armstrong close the door on this part of his life and regain his dignity?
Books
A Summons to Freedom
Roger Haight on the Spiritual Exercises
Nonviolent Revolution?
What more can be said about the nine American Catholics who on a May afternoon 44 years ago stormed a Selective Service office in Catonsville Md seized draft files and burned them in a parking lot while praying the Our Father Their exploits have been memorialized in songs poetry literature fi
Collateral Damage
The rise of heresy persecution in the medieval West
Art
The World of Warhol: When art went pop
How long do you look at a Warhol painting? You get the point almost immediately.
Film
Intimacy Issues: The disappointing platitudes of ‘The Sessions’
The church’s view of sex is more nuanced than “The Sessions” gives it credit for.
The Word
Apocalyptic Vision
The Bible is highly complex and includes a plurality of theologies not all of which align Some of these differences even reflect dramatic shifts Many Old Testament authors assumed for example that there were gods other than Yahweh Ps 82 1 95 3 This had to be corrected Isa 45 20 ndash 21 J
Columns
Motivational Seeking
There is someone drawn to every imaginable activity.
Current Comment
Current Comment
House Call; War Against Want; Now the Scouts
Signs Of the Times
Human Rights on E.U. Border
“Frontex, as an E.U. agency, is bound to do all in its power to ensure that the rights of migrants entering the E.U. are respected.”
Court Orders
“We need to get this mandate overturned” by the courts said Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski said of the requirement that many religious employers pay for contraceptives for their workers.
News Briefs
Flooding at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes on Oct. 20 temporarily closed much of the popular French pilgrimage site.
First Abortion Clinic Opens on Irish Soil
The announcement that a London-based family planning charity would open an abortion clinic in Belfast caught Northern Ireland’s politicians by surprise.
Synod Ends in Optimism
Synod members said they were certain God “will not fail to look on our poverty in order to show the strength of his arm in our days and to sustain us in the path of the new evangelization.”
Confronting Boko Haram
Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producer, but it still struggles with poverty, widespread corruption and recurring ethnic violence.
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts