Diagnosing U.S. Health Care: The health care system cannot be fixed piecemeal; a new system is required.
Michael Moore’s film “Sicko” uses social commentary to hold health care in the United States up to shame. Though Moore neither adequately diagnoses nor prescribes treatment for the patient he observes—our health care system—his film prods viewers into thinking seriously
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Francis Xavier, meet Ignatius Loyola: re-imagining a famous encounter
Letters
Letters
Facing the Truth Of Many Things, by Drew Christiansen, S.J., (10/29) is a perfect example of why I subscribe to America. It was beautiful writing about a very painful subject that we all must face someday, the end of a parents life. What is really important in life is the individual human spirit and
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The Politics of Fear
In an ideal world, a presidential election campaign would be a time to consider competing visions of the most important challenges that now confront the United States. How to respond to the continuing threat of international terrorism assuredly is one of those challenges. Unfortunately our present p
Faith in Focus
An Experience of Light: Major families of European Christians meet.
A report from an ecumenical congress in Europe
Mexicos Drug Violence: Shared border, shared responsibility
Much of Mexicos drug-related violence has roots in the United States, our peoples insatiable demand for illegal drugs. State of Siege, a report by the nonprofit Washington Office on Latin America, notes that the United States shares responsibility for drug-connected violence because the level of con
Editor, Mentor, Friend: A tribute to Frank Oveis
In late August a group of theologians gathered at America House in New York to celebrate a colleague and friend who was retiring from his position as vice president and senior editor at Continuum International publishers. He edited some of us first in the early 1980s, others in the 90s, and several
Liturgy and the Political Isaiah: The second in a series for Advent and Christmas
The aspirations Isaiah voices are ours: for freedom, justice, liberation, and peace.
My Second First Mass: On presiding at a Latin liturgy
On presiding at a Latin liturgy
Books
The Ongoing American Experiment
In his provocative new book The Stillborn God the historian Mark Lilla tackles the centuries-old debate about the nexus between politics and religion After 1 500 years during which religion and government were inextricably intertwined political philosophers began to question the wisdom of that
Wanted: Eye-of-Needle Enlarger
Ignore the Robin-Leach-like subtitle this is not an ogling survey of mega-moneyed celebrities Robert Frank writes a weekly column and daily blog called The Wealth Report for The Wall Street Journal and he offers us an informative guided tour around an astonishing American landscape Most of its i
Forming Bonds
Professor Akbar Ahmed a genial Pakistani scholar trained in Britain and now established at Washingtons American University as holder of the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies took a study trip with three undergraduates through much of the Muslim world in the spring semester of 2006 Journey Into
Poetry
Little Secrets
To Leonard, few of the secrets are given.
The Word
Promise and Fulfillment
The Scripture readings for Advent promote a promise-and-fulfillment approach to the Bible Most Christians view the Old Testament readings as divine promises that have been fulfilled in Jesus Almost every official Catholic document on biblical interpretation including the Second Vatican Councils D
Columns
Coal to Diamond, Frog to Prince: ‘God’s dream takes time to emerge.’
In the beginning, God ran the grains of the embryonic earth through creating fingers and dreamed a dream: that every one of these grains might become, in Gods love and power, a being capable of reflecting something of the mystery from which it springs; that each grain might become what it is destine
Current Comment
Current Comment
No News… When Pope Benedict allowed wider use of the Latin Mass last July, he explained that he did not expect as a result any extensive return to the Tridentine rite. Rather, he said, he intended to heal rifts with traditionalist groups and allow young people attracted to the rite to experience i
Faith
What Divides Orthodox and Catholics?: How the faithful can foster ecumenism on the level of church culture
When protesters in Belgrade converged on the patriarchal headquarters of the Serbian Orthodox Church last April, they were angry about proposed liturgical reforms. The reforms included an instruction to priests to recite aloud some previously silent prayers and to leave the holy doors in the icon sc
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Signs of the Times
Vatican Diplomat Questions Relations With Israel With new problems over visas for foreign priests and the long, ongoing negotiations needed to resolve the tax status of Catholic institutions in Israel, the Vaticans former ambassador to that country said, To be frank, relations between the Catholic
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