Into the Wild: John the Baptist as a model for Christian life today
This advent, look to John the Baptist as a model for Christian life today.
‘Ready to Be Martyrs’: Egyptian Christians claim their ancient roots.
My sharpest memory from Cairo is what my driver said: ‘Christ is testing us.’
Apocalyptic Gladness: Do not fear those end-of-year Lectionary readings.
Do the end-of-year readings really say that our world is fated to end in terror and panic?
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Evil is not a problem; it’s a mystery.
Letters
Letters
No Catholic Blocs Re “The Work Ahead” (Editorial, 11/26): I would highly recommend this editorial except for one thing: It makes the nuns and bishops sound like their own polarizing political blocs, which unfortunately is how many Catholics in the United States have interpreted their st
Editorials
New Resolution
The Obama administration must urge Israel to halt settler expansion and guide it back to the negotiating table.
Faith in Focus
A Light in the Cold: One Northerner’s liturgical prejudice
In the cold of a northern Advent, the image of an infant in the chill touches our hearts.
Books
What the Heart Sees
Brendan Purcell explains why creation and evolution are both needed if we are to understand ourselves.
Seeking the Sacred
Two new collections from Catholic poets have a mystical, almost sacramental quality
Coming Distractions
Do the movies have a future?
The Making of a Masterpiece
Leonardo and the Last Supper
Film
Faith Adrift: The wondrous ‘Life of Pi’
The film ‘Life of Pi’ asks, ‘Do we choose science or religion, atheism or faith?’
Poetry
Lot’s Wife
You can’t tell some people anything,
The Word
Stay Close to Mary
Fourth Sunday of Advent (C), Dec. 23, 2012
Hidden Among Us
Christmas (C), Dec. 25, 2012
Columns
Mixed Messages
The power of big money in politics must be restrained.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Solidarity in Seoul; The Pope’s New Book; On Being ‘Had’
Signs Of the Times
More Horror in Congo; A Proxy War Over Mineral Wealth?
Amnesty International has documented numerous human rights abuses attributed to Congolese fighters, including unlawful killings.
Luring a Lame-Duck Congress Into Legislative Action
There is a pile of unfinished business from 2012 and the nation’s looming “fiscal cliff” to step back from.
Victims Top Priority
Bishop-designate William Crean, appointed on Nov. 24 to Ireland’s Diocese of Cloyne, vowed he would make a priority of healing the pain caused by the sexual abuse scandal.
Statehood in Palestine
The Vatican praised a U.N. vote making Palestine a nonmember observer state but called for full recognition of Palestinian sovereignty as necessary for peace in the region.
In China, Status Quo
A high-ranking Vatican official from China says he does not expect much to change in church-state relations with the new Chinese government.
News Briefs
Speaking on the day before World AIDS Day, Pope Benedict XVI called for special attention to those unable to afford life-saving H.I.V./AIDS drugs.
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts